Howdy all

I am stuck on a weird problem, that I just can't wrap my head round.
Here's what happened:
Background:
Before this problem started, I had been playing with Wine's settings to get Ventrillio to work, and recognise the Wine mixer.
I had to change Wine to OSS, and then in KDE Control Center > Sound & Multimedia > Sound System > General tab - Unticked "Enable the sound system" to release the mixer, and then under the hardware tab, selected ALSA.
When I did this, Ventrillio could see the sound mixer info and allowed me to configure it.
Before, I could only select the soundcard itself and not the mixer and source, etc.

Anyway, I was running World of Warcraft and Ventrillio with Wine, whilst listening to some choons through Amarok.
Everything was going fine, although I did notice that there was a slight crackle every now and then when Amarok changed tracks.
(Before Ventrillio, No crackle at all, as far as I can remember anyway)

At the time, I didn't think anything of it, as I was listening to some pretty chilled out tracks from Orbital, so thought it was maybe part of the track.
Then whilst in game, in WoW, a rogue ganked me, and I heard a rather large crackle from the speakers again, and then Silence.
No sound in WoW, so I quit the game, and then noticed Amarok was still playing away and no sound at all!
Rebooted, and still no sound.

I tried alsaconf, and that brought the sound back until I played anything with Amarok, and then the sound would disappear.
This time though, alsaconf would not bring the sound back.
alsaconf could see the card, and configured it automatically, but again, no sound.
So I checked to make sure the sound hadn't been muted in kMix and alsamixer, and all was ok, but I still have no sound. I then changed the sound system settings back to their original settings before I had messed about.
Rebooted afterwards just to make sure, and still no sound.

So, after about an hour of rebooting, changing settings, searching for similar problems etc, I gave up and reinstalled Mepis.
When I logged in on the LiveCD, I had sound. When I rebooted, No Sound.

Does anyone have any idea whats gone wrong?

Heres some system info:
If you need any more information, let me know.

Someone has got to have an idea whats causing this, please help me sort this out

Hi MGE,
This is strictly a shot in the dark but on my system sometimes one application will effect the PCM setting as in turning it all the way down. At that point I don't hear any more sound. I have no idea why this happens and it doesn't happen very often. This behaviour suddenly starts and lasts a couple of day (when I have to constantly raise the PCM level) and then it goes away as mysteriously as it came.

Could this be your problem? The next time it happens check the PCM level... just in case.
cheers,
jdk

Good call!
That was it!

PCM level was at max, but it had muted.
Why, I have no idea, but it was staring at me right in the face as well.

I'll bare that in mind the next time my sound goes AWOL.

Many thanks.

My pleasure. It's always nice to do something useful now and then. :-)
cheers,
jdk