Enabling sound

[Jean Hollis Weber]

Bill Thompson wrote:
> Jean Hollis Weber <jean-ooo at taming-openoffice-org.com> wrote:
>> ... I don't get sound out of any websites, using Firefox 
>> 1.5.0.4 as shipped with Ubuntu 6.06. Not that I know a good 
>> website to use for testing sound; I normally have sound muted on 
>> any machine I use.
>>
>> Do I need to change something in Firefox (if so, where?) or in 
>> some config or other file?
> 
> Have you done a security upgrade recently? My upgrade from Breezy to
> Dapper work fine with sound and everything else. After a security
> upgrade on Saturday, I have been unable to get any program to play
> sound on my machine. I have checked levels and configuration and they
> all look good, but no sound. I'm thinking it's a Gstreamer issue, but I
> haven't had the time to troubleshoot.

I have applied all the upgrades/updates from Ubuntu as they come 
in, so I assume that includes a security upgrade. I had not tried 
sound before (usually I keep it muted), so I have no idea if it 
worked before the upgrade.

--Jean