Sound used to work, now it doesn't

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Tue, 2009-12-01 at 07:44 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:
> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Fwiw, the "test" button has never worked all that well (better in kde-4.4)

Well that's reassuring.

> Did you do any other "tests" to confirm?

I noticed the problem when a Flash page on the New York Times site
played video but no sound.

However, I have now updated my system, which includes installing a new
kernel and rebooting, and lo and behold sound is now back again, both on
the Flash page and in System Settings.

I stress that every user-visible setting is identical to what it was. I
don't know if the fix came from the new kernel, or just the reboot, or
restarting my KDE session, or the phase of the moon.

poc