sound works randomly?
I'm very confused. If I run the gnome sound control,
test speakers works fine. If I run "play", the sound
plays normally. If I run "aplay", I got no sound till
I rebooted, then aplay started to work, but if I run
mplayer or youtube in google-chrome, I still get no sound.
The gnome sound control "Applications" list does
show mplayer or chrome as an app using sound, the
apps don't give any apparent errors, all the
messages from mplayer with all the details of what
it is doing seem to indicate it is talking to
the pulseaudio daemon OK, but there is no sound.
What is going on? Everyone thinks the volume
is cranked up, nothing is muted.