I completely removed a pulseaudio mod I installed last year and also completely purged all the audio drivers.

I then installed aptitude based on some recommendations and used that to reinstall all the stock ubuntu audio drivers using --purge along with reinstall. Still after that I had no sound.

The key was running this command and rebooted:
killall pulseaudio; rm -r ~/.config/pulse/* ; rm -r ~/.pulse*

I just stole it from the ubuntu help page at: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SoundTroubleshootingProcedure.

If anyone else has problems hope this helps. I still cannot use dedicated volume slider. I'll get that fixed soon, at least my speakers work now.

I completely removed a pulseaudio mod I installed last year and also completely purged all the audio drivers.

I then installed aptitude based on some recommendations and used that to reinstall all the stock ubuntu audio drivers using --purge along with reinstall. Still after that I had no sound.

The key was running this command and rebooting:
killall pulseaudio; rm -r ~/.config/pulse/* ; rm -r ~/.pulse*

I stole that code from the ubuntu help page at: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SoundTroubleshootingProcedure.

If anyone else has problems hope this helps. I still cannot use the dedicated volume buttons on my keyboard. I'll work on that soon, at least my speakers work now.