No sound since upgrading to F15 (SOLVED)

[John Aldrich]

On Mon June 6 2011, Tim Smith wrote:
> 
> I found I had to
> 
> (a) install and use pavucontrol so I could make pulseaudio send stuff to
> the right places ("everyone" has two soundcards these days as there's
> the HDMI audio in your graphics card which probably isn't connected to
> anything unless it is - basically you can't get this right any more and
> there needs to be an extra configuration step).
> 
> (b) play with (in my case) "alsamixer -c 0" to fix up my mixers and
> stuff. Pulse doesn't seem to like independent headphones - if I turn
> that on no amount of messing about will get me any sound.
> 
> (c) Manually save the ALSA state with alsactl and put something in
> rc.local to reload it because F15 no longer gets this right, and
> otherwise I have to do (b) again every time I reboot.
>
I found that upgrading to Fedora 15 had caused *all* inputs to be muted as 
well as the outputs. I had to go and un-mute everything. Bloody idiots, 
IMNSHO, who decided to mute everything on an upgrade!