Karmic: occasional no sound at boot up

[Mark Fraser]

On Thursday 25 Feb 2010 07:43:44 Mark Fraser wrote:
> On Wednesday 24 Feb 2010 18:49:34 Jonas Norlander wrote:
> > On 23 February 2010 17:03, Mark Fraser <ubuntu at mfraz.orangehome.co.uk>
> 
> wrote:
> > > Occasionally when I turn my computer on, I will get a pop up appear
> > > saying that it couldn't find any sound drivers. Shutting down and then
> > > rebooting gets the sound back, but it is getting annoying!
> >
> > I used to have this problem to. The cause was that some package had a
> > wrong dependency and pulled in pulsaudio, purging pulsaudio and some
> > other packages solved it. This was on Jaunty, in Karmic I haven't had
> > this problem.
> > Search the list and you will a lot of user that have had the same
> > problem.
> >
> > / jonas
> 
> The only package with pulse in the name that is still loaded is libpulse0,
>  but that wants to remove 186 packages including kde-base.
> 
Some more info on this, it only seems to affect KDE4 applications such as 
Amarok, DragonPlayer and Kaffeine. If I use Mediaplayer or VLC I get sound.

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