Sound used to work, now it doesn't

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

It fixed itself when I rebooted with a new kernel. Go figure.

I'm replying personally because I noticed your .sig line says you're at
Heriot-Watt. I did my PhD at the Watt in 1978 in the EE Department (as
it was then). I also spent a sabbatical at Riccarton in 1995-96.

Cheers :-)

poc

On Tue, 2009-12-01 at 13:49 +0000, Mary Ellen Foster wrote:
> 2009/12/1 Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan at gmail.com>:
> > 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.
> >
> > The only backend I have is Xine, though I seem to remember that
> > Gstreamer is now preferred. I installed everything gstreamer-related I
> > could find, including all the plugins, and I still only get offered
> > Xine. What else can I do?
> 
> FWIW, my husband's laptop started doing the same thing yesterday too
> -- he does get sound if he disables pulseaudio, though.
> 
> MEF
>