Fix Sound driver on Kali Linux

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In this post we talk about sound driver of Kali Linux, which have some problems. In last post i have showed how to install Kali Linux on virtual machine, and now in this post we gonna fix problem with sound driver. Operating system starts with muted sound. And today we gonna fix it.

1. Turn on Kali Linux, open terminal and type in
sudo killall pulseaudio and hit enter. Now type next.


sudo apt-get purge pulseaudio pulseaudio-utils gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio paman pavumeter pavucontrol


and again hit enter.
2. Continue typing and now type  rm ~/ .pulse-cookie , after that type rm -r ~/ .pulse and after this type next.

sudo apt-get install alsa-base alsa-tools alsa-tools-gui alsa-utils alsa-oss alsamixergui libalsaplayer0


and at last type apt-get install kmix and hit enter.
3. And now restart machine.
4. OK now again open terminal and start typing on terminal and type next apt-get install pulseaudio and hit enter and and last type apt-get install gnome-core and again hit enter.
5. Restart machine.
Now you can see the result, all works great, problem solved.

29 comments :

  1. Thank you, sound is better than ever

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    1. Yes, it fixes the problem, but what was the problem? And, how does it get fixed by doing what you say to do? Not that I'm ungrateful. Thank your for the fix, but I'm curious, how does it work?

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    2. Yes, it fixes the problem, but what was the problem? And, how does it get fixed by doing what you say to do? Not that I'm ungrateful. Thank your for the fix, but I'm curious, how does it work?

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    3. By default Kali linux starts with muted sound. SO after doing that all your kali linux will no longer start muted!

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    4. Please help me to resolve.

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    5. you're life-saver!

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  2. The above commands are not working

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    1. # rm .pulse-cookie
      # rm -r .pulse
      # alsa force-reload

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    2. 1-sure that u are in your home or use this command:rm /home/your username/.pulse-cookie
      2-rm -r .pulse is wrong. -r option use for directories.so you must enter: rm /home/your username/.pulse-cookie.pulse

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  3. Yay! It worked. thanks Mikael Aleksanyan

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  4. abslutely worked for me
    THANX

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  5. I reboot, now i cannot sign on back to kali , ask me for username and password, need help

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    1. Type root as user

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    2. this erased all my dolwnloads how do i get them back

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  6. Most of these packages no longer exist, and this fix is now obsolete.

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    1. They worked for me and I just did it 2 days after you did.

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  7. Thanks this helped me fix my non working headphone jack after upgrading kali!!!

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    1. I had tried absolutely every solution in any forum I could find... nothing worked.. I had accepted that it wasn't going to work. Thank you.

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  8. it erased some files I had. ok my mistake maybe. but there is no color in the shell anymore. and it didn't work. but the most annoying is that everything now is with white chars. no red in the prompt, no colours after ls

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    1. Because this was posted about in 2014, and as you know there is a new version of kali(v2.0). So the things has been changed, read this post on how to do that nowadays - http://www.cyberprogrammers.net/2015/08/how-to-fix-soundaudio-driver-mute-in.html

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  9. Sorry...should i do these stuffs while i'm online or i can do it when i'm offline eather?

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    1. Hi! Please read this post, because this method doesn't work anymore. So read how to do that from here and no you need an internet connection - http://www.cyberprogrammers.net/2015/08/how-to-fix-soundaudio-driver-mute-in.html

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  10. I just lost all my scripts, i have terminal problems and sound continues with the same problem...

    I done everything like you sayed.

    Thanks

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    1. Dear user as you can see this is an old post so this won't work on a new version of kali, check this post - http://www.cyberprogrammers.net/2015/08/how-to-fix-soundaudio-driver-mute-in.html

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  11. can you help me i tried to do this for kali linux 2.0 and now the sound icons dont appear plz help me :/

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    1. Hi! This is outdated method, try this one - http://www.cyberprogrammers.net/2015/08/how-to-fix-soundaudio-driver-mute-in.html

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