Howto diagnose sound problems?

[Florian Diesch]

Clemens Eisserer <linuxhippy at gmail.com> writes:

> A friend of mine has an "Acer Timeline 4810T" (some new intel hda
> soundchip), and I installed Karmic Alpha6 on it.
>
> However she experiences sound problems, which look like a hanging audio device:
>
> - KDE apps stop playing sound
> - Songbird completly blocks waiting for the sound-device to become availebl
> - Flash plays two seconds of video, but then gets stuck
>
> The problem only dissapear if she reboots.
> I am not sure howto diagnose any further, and idea which log-files are relevant.
> Do you think this is more likely a pulseaudio problem, or an alsa one?

Some pages that may help:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DebuggingSoundProblemsMisc
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Sound
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SoundTroubleshooting
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SoundTroubleshootingProcedure
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingSoundProblems


   Florian
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