Were Intrepid updates the reason I lost my sound on the Intrepid partition?

[Matthew Flaschen]

Dotan Cohen wrote:
> That won't help in Linux like it does in Windows, because in Linux
> there is separation between user files (your settings, such as mute)
> and the program's runtime files. This is partly a security feature,
> and partly because *nix was designed as a multi-user OS. Instead of
> reinstalling, try removing the configuration files for broken apps.

Well, that's what remove --purge is for.

Matt Flaschen