It fixed itself when I rebooted with a new kernel. Go figure. I'm replying personally because I noticed your .sig line says you're at Heriot-Watt. I did my PhD at the Watt in 1978 in the EE Department (as it was then). I also spent a sabbatical at Riccarton in 1995-96. Cheers :-) poc On Tue, 2009-12-01 at 13:49 +0000, Mary Ellen Foster wrote: > 2009/12/1 Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan at gmail.com>: > > Asus EeePC 1000E, F12, KDE 4.3. > > > > I had sound configured and working. Now, without me changing anything > > I'm aware of, it doesn't. System Settings shows the same info as before > > (PA as first choice), Kmix has all the sliders at full and is not muted, > > but even the Test button doesn't produce any sound, even when selecting > > the Intel hardware directly. > > > > The only backend I have is Xine, though I seem to remember that > > Gstreamer is now preferred. I installed everything gstreamer-related I > > could find, including all the plugins, and I still only get offered > > Xine. What else can I do? > > FWIW, my husband's laptop started doing the same thing yesterday too > -- he does get sound if he disables pulseaudio, though. > > MEF >