no sound on ubuntu 16.04.In setting it says dummy sound

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no sound on ubuntu 16.04 .In setting it say dummy sound after downloading on to a mini pc it says dummy sound what does that mean .what can i try ?

Possible duplicate of [Persistent Dummy Output](https://askubuntu.com/questions/800262/persistent-dummy-output) and [No sound in Ubuntu 13.04, only Dummy output device listed](https://askubuntu.com/questions/294016/) — karel, Sep 22 '19 at 16:21

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 31 '18 at 21:38

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Try pulseaudio -k && sudo alsa force-reload

answered Mar 31 '18 at 21:38

PoRaG

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 31 '18 at 21:52

I just had this problem a couple hours ago. Usually just switching to a different device fixes it but not this time. So I used:

rm ~/.pulse/           # In my case this directory was empty
rm ~/.config/pulse/*
pulseaudio -k

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