sound problem

[Ric Moore]

On Sat, 2010-07-31 at 15:38 -0700, Robert Schwab wrote:
I am still trying to get the sound going in my installation of 10.4 When
I go to System/ Preferences/Sound, I get a tag that states, after a
wait. "waiting for sound system to respond", and then the tag goes away;
How can I address this problem? 

I had so many problems, in the past with Pulse, that I did a fresh
install with 10.4. It all worked out of the box. Since 8.04 there have
been so many alterations to the alsa schema, that it's hard to keep up.
So, if you did an upgrade, you may have old ~/.alsa files lying around
that serve no purpose now. I have no .asound files at all. None in /etc

Crank open synaptic and search on pulse and see if there are any files
that you may think you need, like pavcontrol, that you didn't have
before. I'd like to know how you installed. There's always a running
debate on whether to install fresh or upgrade, and which works best. Ric