Disappearing Sound

[NoOp]

On 09/30/2008 01:15 PM, Wade Smart wrote:
> NoOp wrote:

>> Try here:
>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SoundTroubleshooting
>> 
>> 
> 
> 20080930 1502 GMT-6
> 
> Ok. I have all rows upon rows of sound drivers.
> 
> I went through all the commands with success.
> 
> But I think that this page is for those who have NO sound. I do have
> sound. Actually I had sound for two straight hours while watching tv
> online today and then after lunch, I had no sound again.

:-) sounds like you have parental controls enabled :-)

> 
> Actually, Im starting to think this whole 8.04 is too buggy for me right
> now. It works perfectly well on lots of peoples machines and then on
> others - its totally flaky. My old dell laptop - it seems to be rock
> solid but my newer desktop - I have so many problems its crazy.
> 
> Really what I might do (if I can get the time and patience to do it) is
> backup all my stuff (again), download 8.04 and burn a new disk and do
> another new install. I just seem to have too many problems -
> intermittent  sound just being one.

What is sound card/chipset do you have?