Re: SOLVED??? was Re: Wine has lost sound on Kubuntu 9.10

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On Saturday 28 November 2009 21:31:42 Lisi wrote:
> 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.

That turned out to be a false dawn.  Sound suddenly disappeared again and then 
a bitlater re-appeared etc.

Google finally found a solution for me that I _think_ (fingers crossed) has 
worked.  Set winecfg to OSS and install ALSA OSS wrapper.

Lisi



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