[Hoary] Sound problems

[Eamonn Sullivan]

I ran into an odd problem this week after upgrading to Hoary. My wife,
who doesn't use Ubuntu that much, logged into her account and didn't
have sound.

To get sound working on mine, I had to do the trick I picked up on the
list of disabling the sound server, logging out and saving settings,
and then logging in again and enabling the sound server. I also made
sure that I had ESD chosen in Preferences/Multimedia chooser (whatever
it's called -- as usual, when I have time to send a message to the
list, I'm not in front of my computer -- I'm waiting for a Eurostar
from London to Brussels and using a public terminal.)

It didn't work with my wife. Furthermore, under
Preferences/Multimedia, if she chooses ESD, the test doesn't work. She
was able to choose ALSA, however, which at least provided the ability
to play Rhythmbox. But now only one app at a time can use sound.

It's an odd problem because both of our accounts were created at the
same time -- when I first installed Warty months ago. What do I have
to do to get polypaudio/ESD working under her id?

-Eamonn