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I had a "dummy output" problem and started messing with the terminal. After trying multiple users' solutions I decided to uninstall pulseaudio and use alsamixer instead. That didn't fix my issue, rather it just got rid of the volume system tray that I would like to get back.

I used sudo apt-get autoremove pulseaudio to uninstall then sudo apt-get install pulseaudio to re-install but all of my issues are still the same, and the system tray volume icon isn't back after re-booting either.

How do I get my sound devices to output properly and the volume tray back?
Also, the hdmi output disappeared from PulseAudio Volume Control.

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Okay, a simple run of the following command:

apt-cache search pulse | egrep 'tray|indicator'

returns the following:

indicator-sound - System sound indicator.
indicator-sound-gtk2 - System sound indicator.
pasystray - PulseAudio controller for the system tray
pnmixer - Simple mixer application for system tray
volti - control audio volume from system tray/notification area

Although, I think what you are looking for is indicator-sound as the tray icons are called indicators for unity. In any case, run the following command to hopefully install the system tray icon you are looking for:

sudo apt-get install pasystray pnmixer volti indicator-sound

reboot.

If you are using unity, you might be able to skip a reboot by running the following command:

indicator-sound &

For Kubuntu:

Run the following command to install the systray icon:

sudo apt-get install kmix

Start it up using the following command:

kmix &
mchid
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