Sorry. Some things are just a mystery. I put a Feisty disc into a new P4 box and it worked straight away, except for on board sound. So I put an old Soundblaster card in and it worked so well I could even use Rhythmbox, Audacity and Skype all at the same time with no audio conflicts. Then I re-calibrated the on board sound, removed the Soundblaster and got sound but only on one programme at a time. Otherwise resource conflicts. As the Americans say, "Go figure." Simon
Terry Coles wrote: > On Friday 28 Aug 2009, Terry Coles wrote: > >> Since yesterday evening, I've had no sound when browsing the web, (Firefox >> or Konquerer) or when playing games. Playback of music and videos seems to >> work OK though when I use Amarok or Dragon Player. >> >> I'm assuming this was a broken update, but what? Anyone got any ideas >> where to start looking? >> > > I spent a bit of time over the weekend trying to isolate the problem, but > with > no success. One thing I did notice though is that the game Einstein > (http://games.flowix.com/en/index.html, it's also available in the Ubuntu > repositories), maxes out one of my CPUs from the moment that it is launched, > even when it is only on the Start screen. I first noticed this because it > was > taking a long time for the Window to close when I finished playing and so had > a look. > > I then tried the same process on my wife's machine, and found that it does > not > exhibit the same problem. Mine is a home-brewed desktop with a dual core 64 > bit Athlon running a fully patched Kubuntu 9.04 and the KDE 4.3 patches > (available at http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-ppa/backports/ubuntu). My > wife's machine is a fully patched Mesh desktop with a dual core 64 bit Athlon > running Kubuntu 9.04 and without the KDE 4.3 patches. > > It looks likely therefore (but not certain), that the KDE 4.3 upgrade is the > problem. When I installed it, I was aware that there were risks in doing so, > and was quite prepared to trash everything and start again with a clean > install of Jaunty. However, it worked fine for several weeks before this > occurred and so I would like to consider all the strategies available before > I > do anything that drastic. > > Does anyone have any suggestions as to the best way forward? Can I roll back > to standard Jaunty easily? > > -- Next meeting: Dorchester, Tuesday 2009-09-01 20:00 Dorset LUG: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
