Here's an easy way to fix things that might work.
Sound died on my machine without a good reason. I hadn't done anything but
start a movie in mplayer which hung and wouldn't exit, so I rebooted
(nicely) to regain control. Afterward, sound wouldn't work in X. I have a
script that watches the web server's log file and plays a *ding* when I get
a hit. While no sounds worked in X (mixer did, but aplay hung) I heard a
*ding* when X exited on the way down.
Reboot, no change. Shut down/boot up, no change. Then I remembered that
sometimes hardware gets into a weird state and won't reset until it loses
power, and that the PCI(e) bus is kept "hot" even when the computer's turned
off, to allow wake-on-LAN. So, I shut down, *turned off the power supply*,
waited until it died, then brought it back up. Voila, sound.
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