FWIW, I've just reinstalled alsa-plugins-pulseaudio and rebooted. While
the widget seems to be here to stay, the only channel remains "Dummy
Output", and sound still doesn't play.
On 04/17/2014 12:01 AM, Someone wrote:
> What is your make/model laptop?
It's a Lenovo Thinkpad.
> Not familiar with laptops....but I suppose their audio device still sits on the PCI
bus.... What does....
>
> lspci | grep -i audio
>
> show?
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio
Controller (rev 03)
Does that help?
I was able to figure out that the program responsible for the
notification area audio widget is PNMixer, and I was able to get it back
by running:
pnmixer
Unfortunately, however, it's only the icon, and my sound hasn't returned
with it. :(