I was having issues where my microphone was not working, and I saw it advised to use pulseaudio, I tried running that but got:
E: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running.E: [pulseaudio] main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed.
I tried solving that by looking at several already answered questions about that problem, however I did not manage to solve that problem, and now my microphone does not work still, and my laptop speakers don't do any sound when I do "test" in the settings, but they do work when I play a youtube video...
I am on ubuntu 20.04
My computer is an asus gaming laptop.
It has dual boot with windows 10.
I have just installed a new GPU nvidia driver because I got an external monitor that was showing blank (got it to work though!), don't know if that's of any relevance!
EDIT: Just checked if my bluetooth headphones worked, and the won't connect anymore.
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I also confirm that after upgrading to 20.04 from 18.04, I started facing sound problems.
E.g. while in Skype I'm able to use my headphones, when I select them via Settings - Sound and try Test, nothing can be heard.
I have the onboard soundcard and also the NVIDIA soundcard used to hear sound from my monitor's speakers.
Again, Sound Settings Test does not work properly for the Nvidia sound.
