Running a dual-boot with Vista and Ubuntu...

Vista froze on me and I had to reboot. After booting back into Ubuntu I had no sound except a crackling.

But it didnt seem to be a hardware thing because booting back into Vista, audio worked fine.

Turns out this thread had the answer.

Somehow my PCM mixer got muted...all that was needed was to bring it back up with alsamixer -Dhw

In case anyone else gets annoying messages with their skype running on 64-bit Ubuntu:

1) Doubleclick your volume control
2) Under "Device" select "capture: Monitor source..." and "capture: alsa pcm..."
3) make sure both of these have the volume raised up all the way.
4) open skype, go to options (cntl-o) > Sound Devices
5) For "Sound In", set it to HDA Intel (hw:Intel,0)
6) For "Sound Out", select pulse
7) Try making a test call
8) Post a comment if it worked. I spent wayyy too much time trying to figure this out, hope no one else has to suffer as much :)