System notification sounds "gone"

[O. Sinclair]

Noiano wrote:
> O. Sinclair wrote:
>> Suddenly something happened to my System Notifications! I like the 
>> little sounds from stuff like Kopete etc. but they are all now dead 
>> silent and if I try and play them via System Settings / system 
>> notifications nothing is heard!
>>
>> Amarok, Kaffeine etc works fine though?
>>
>> Any assistance is as usual appreciated....
>>
>> Sinclair
>>
> 
> Well I have experienced your problem and I haven't solved it yet.
> However, in my case, the system notifications go and come in the sense
> that if they do not work if I reboot the system they probably work
> again. So many times I reboot my system hoping that the system
> notifications work again.
> The only advice I can give to you is to check whether you have ALSA
> selected in the "sound and multimedia" menu, in the control panel.
> As soon as I selected ALSA in the "sound and multimedia" menu the system
> notification started to work more frequently.
> 
> I hope this helps and forgive my terrible English.
> 
Not everyone is an ecglish speaker by birth so no problems (neither am I 
  in fact).
As for rebooting etc - have not made any difference whatsoever. But I 
can tell you that sometimes my audio device "go missing" on booting and 
then only a reboot will help. But then no sound whatsoever can be heard 
of course...
Something to do with my HDA device I suspect.

Sinclair