still no sound after doing that.. I typed sudo dpkg -l | grep -e alsa -e pulseaudio again, and got this: ii alsa-base 1.0.25+dfsg-0ubuntu4 all ALSA driver configuration files ii alsa-utils 1.0.25-4ubuntu2 i386 Utilities for configuring and using ALSA ii gnome-alsamixer 0.9.7~cvs.20060916.ds.1-3ubuntu1 i386 ALSA sound mixer for GNOME ii gstreamer0.10-alsa:i386 0.10.36-1.1ubuntu1 i386 GStreamer plugin for ALSA ii gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio:i386 0.10.31-3+nmu1ubuntu2 i386 GStreamer plugin for PulseAudio ii pulseaudio 1:3.0-0ubuntu6 i386 PulseAudio sound server ii pulseaudio-module-x11 1:3.0-0ubuntu6 i386 X11 module for PulseAudio sound server ii pulseaudio-utils 1:3.0-0ubuntu6 i386 Command line tools for the PulseAudio sound server After the commands in 2., pulseaudio is working again, but there is still no sound.. I tried the command in 3., and here is what I got: ~$ sudo gedit /etc/default/speech-dispatcher sudo: gedit: command not found