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and icewm. From an xterm mplayer runs, but no sound comes out of
the speaker. It's like the system is on mute.

"pactl list" tells me sink 0, and sources 0 and 1 are suspended.
I don't know how they got that way, and I can't seem to unsuspend
them.

Sink #0
        State: SUSPENDED
        Name: alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo
        Description: Internal Audio Analog Stereo
        Driver: module-alsa-card.c
        Sample Specification: s16le 2ch 44100Hz
        Channel Map: front-left,front-right
        Owner Module: 4
        Mute: no
        Volume: 0:  45% 1:  45%
                0: -21.00 dB 1: -21.00 dB
                balance 0.00
        Base Volume:  96%
                     -1.00 dB
        Monitor Source: alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo.monitor
        Latency: 0 usec, configured 0 usec
        Flags: HARDWARE HW_MUTE_CTRL HW_VOLUME_CTRL DECIBEL_VOLUME LATENCY
        Properties:
[...]

Source #0
        State: SUSPENDED
        Name: alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo.monitor
        Description: Monitor of Internal Audio Analog Stereo
        Driver: module-alsa-card.c
        Sample Specification: s16le 2ch 44100Hz
        Channel Map: front-left,front-right
        Owner Module: 4
        Mute: no
        Volume: 0: 100% 1: 100%
                0: 0.00 dB 1: 0.00 dB
                balance 0.00
        Base Volume: 100%
                     0.00 dB
        Monitor of Sink: alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo
        Latency: 0 usec, configured 0 usec
        Flags: DECIBEL_VOLUME LATENCY
        Properties:
[...]

"pactl suspend-sink 0 0" returns 0 (success, one would think) but
nothing changes with Sink #0. "pactl suspend-sink 0 1" doesn't
change anything either (and exits with 0 as well).

Now, "pactl suspend-source 0 0" exits with 1 and gives an error:
"Failure: Invalid argument" ("pactl suspend-source 0 1", "... 1 0",
and "... 1 1" all do the same thing).

What is going on here?

Elijah