I'm using Kubuntu 10.04 Lucid 64-bit and I'm having a problem that is driving me insane. If I'm playing music on Amarok, or something in mplayer and another application uses the audio (i.e., KDE notification
bell, flash video in firefox, etc...) the music stops. The timer in Amarok/mplayer keeps running as if the song is still playing, but I can't get the audio back unless I stop playback and restart it again. Pausing and unpausing doesn't work.
The same thing works backwards. If I'm watching a video in firefox and start Amarok, then the sound in firefox goes out and I have to reload the page for it to come back. It works fine on my kids computer.
I installed installed pulseaudio on this computer and later removed it and went back to ALSA. I don't know if doing this fudged something.
Right now, I have all Pulse packages removed, except for libpulse0 that pulls a lot of packages if I try to remove it. I used Alsa on Hardy and never had any problems. BTW, I didn't upgrade from Hardy, rather I did a clean install. Here's a short 20 sec. desktop capture of exactly what happens:
http://tinypic.com/player.php?v=wj6ixj&s=4
bell, flash video in firefox, etc...) the music stops. The timer in Amarok/mplayer keeps running as if the song is still playing, but I can't get the audio back unless I stop playback and restart it again. Pausing and unpausing doesn't work.
The same thing works backwards. If I'm watching a video in firefox and start Amarok, then the sound in firefox goes out and I have to reload the page for it to come back. It works fine on my kids computer.
I installed installed pulseaudio on this computer and later removed it and went back to ALSA. I don't know if doing this fudged something.
Right now, I have all Pulse packages removed, except for libpulse0 that pulls a lot of packages if I try to remove it. I used Alsa on Hardy and never had any problems. BTW, I didn't upgrade from Hardy, rather I did a clean install. Here's a short 20 sec. desktop capture of exactly what happens:
http://tinypic.com/player.php?v=wj6ixj&s=4