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
