I keep losing the sound on my Ubuntu 8.04.1 (64-bit) installation. I can play video and audio files okay, but then a bit later I cannot get any sound at all. The only clue is that if I try to open a video file in Xine, it says that the audio is device is unavailable as another program is using it. One time recently when this happened, I close the image viewer which was viewing a jpg image, and then the sound returned (which is bizzare as no sound is needed to view a photo). The image viewer is not currently running, and nothing that uses audio is running (like Rhythmbox), although I have visited some flash-based sites in Firefox.
Any ideas what could cause this and how to prevent the loss of sound in future? David King -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
