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

[Steven Vollom]

On Monday 23 February 2009 00:44:56 Matthew Flaschen wrote:
> 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
Perhaps, but I don't know when or how to apply --purge.

Steven