On Saturday 28 November 2009 20:22:02 Lisi wrote: > On Saturday 28 November 2009 19:53:49 vitamin wrote: > > Lisi wrote: > > > Help! What should I look at? It was working well - and suddenly it > > > isn't. > > > > Get rid of pulseaudio - it's a known problem with it when sound just > > suddenly stops. See sticky post about it. > > Thanks for the suggestion, but I'm running phonon with ALSA, not > pulseaudio. I was warned re other applications that introducing pulseaudio > might cause problems. (I believe that Ubuntu uses pulseaudio, but Kubuntu > doesn't and one of the first things I checked was that pulseaudio was still > not running.) > > I also reran winecfg, having renamed .wine. Sound has reappeared as suddenly as it disappeared.... The only potential explanation that I can think of is that Amarok was running in the background and possible hogging the sound card, and I shut it down properly. The flaw in that explanation is that I think that the sound disappeared before I started Amarok, but I may be mistaken in that - because it would leave me without any explanation. Lisi
