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So, the problem here is that my audio worked before this.

Last night, I left my computer on. When I woke up, I tried to wake it from sleep, but it seemed it had crashed for some reason. I restarted my computer, and it worked fine, except the audio is gone.

I really have no idea what is going on, except that Debian is completely ignoring my motherboard audio card all of a sudden. I tested audio recording in Audacity, and I was getting a record signal, but it was just noise from the look of it, and had no correlation to my actual microphone.

My settings say I am using alsa with PULSE, which is normal.

The only information I can give is that I did attempt to get some OSS compatibility packages, but that was a couple days ago, and I have surly restarted my computer since then.

If you need any system information, let me know in the comments and I will post it.

EDIT:

In the audio manager, all of my audio devices have been replaced wit "Dummy Output," and the normal devices are not selectable, but listed. My normal device, called "Built-in Audio Analog Stereo" is one of these devices I can't select, meaning that my audio will not work until I can get that device working. Maybe I edited the modules when working with the OSS stuff, causing the devices to not be selectable?

EDIT:

/proc/asound does not exist, which is an issue...

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    Could we get the output of cat /proc/asound/cards?
    – derobert
    Jun 2, 2017 at 16:50
  • @derobert sure thing! One sec... Jun 2, 2017 at 16:54
  • @derobert It appears that /proc/asound doesnt exist, thats alarming... Jun 2, 2017 at 16:55
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    BTW, random aside, I'd like to introduce you to etckeeper. Easily puts /etc under version control, so you can quickly see what you changed—even if it was at the end of a late night of trying to get this #(@!# thing to work.
    – derobert
    Jun 2, 2017 at 17:03
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    @derobert okay, found some more packages involving oss, and uninstall purged all of them. Restarting now... Jun 2, 2017 at 17:15

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Uninstall (purge) any oss replacement packages, like oss4-base.

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