Were Intrepid updates the reason I lost my sound on the Intrepid partition?

[Jonas Norlander]

2009/2/24 Steven Vollom <stevenvollom at sbcglobal.net>:
> On Monday 23 February 2009 18:34:27 Jonas Norlander wrote:
>> 2009/2/23 Steven Vollom <stevenvollom at sbcglobal.net>:
>>
>> I haven't read this whole thread but if I got it right you got sound
>> in some programs and other not? In that case what programs work and
>> who don't?
>
> Dear Jonas,
>
> I followed your instruction and purged dragonplayer.  I then installed it, but
> the sound still does not work.  What is strange is this, originally dragon
> player worked on my computer.  It was after a major upgrade that sound stopped
> working.  Don't make sense to me?
>
> Steven
>

My guess is that it's a configuration error. There are several ways in
Kubuntu a program can use to play sounds. A program can use xine or
gstreamer as backend or they can talk to the alsa library directly,
KDE uses a layer called Phonon and that in turn uses Xine as a backend
there are other ways to but this is probably the most common in
Kubuntu. If you could try different programs to see if some will play
sounds we could narrow it down to what causing you problem.

/ Jonas