My google-fu is failing me on this one, and it's a persistent problem that's been around for the last three or so releases of Kubuntu. I can't find much that makes sense on Google, so I'm going to ask here.
I'm running a pretty stable Jaunty on my IBM T61 laptop. My sound works great when using Amarok to play music, or VLC player to watch movies. But there's a specific and annoying problem that keeps creeping up on me.
I use Firefox 3.5 (but this happened in 3.0, too) to do most of my web browsing. When I first start up the laptop and the app, my sound works fine. I can play YouTube, Hulu, hear sound, etc. BUT...if I unplug my laptop and move it to another outlet or part of the house (which I do several times a day), the next time I attempt to play sound through anything on the web, it delays, stutters, and generally epic fails.
The solution is a pretty simple one--all I have to do is close Firefox, run a "ps -ef" in my terminal (which I do because FF 3.5 is quirky like that and sometimes doesn't shut down all the way), and then run a "sudo /etc/init.d/alsa-utils restart" in the terminal, and restart Firefox. Problem solved. But it's a pain in the arse, and it doesn't really sell the neighbors on the value of Linux as a viable alt to their crappy Vista PCs.
Has anyone got a solution? Or is this a bona-fide bug I should report to either KDE, Ubuntu, or Firefox?
Thanks!
I'm running a pretty stable Jaunty on my IBM T61 laptop. My sound works great when using Amarok to play music, or VLC player to watch movies. But there's a specific and annoying problem that keeps creeping up on me.
I use Firefox 3.5 (but this happened in 3.0, too) to do most of my web browsing. When I first start up the laptop and the app, my sound works fine. I can play YouTube, Hulu, hear sound, etc. BUT...if I unplug my laptop and move it to another outlet or part of the house (which I do several times a day), the next time I attempt to play sound through anything on the web, it delays, stutters, and generally epic fails.
The solution is a pretty simple one--all I have to do is close Firefox, run a "ps -ef" in my terminal (which I do because FF 3.5 is quirky like that and sometimes doesn't shut down all the way), and then run a "sudo /etc/init.d/alsa-utils restart" in the terminal, and restart Firefox. Problem solved. But it's a pain in the arse, and it doesn't really sell the neighbors on the value of Linux as a viable alt to their crappy Vista PCs.
Has anyone got a solution? Or is this a bona-fide bug I should report to either KDE, Ubuntu, or Firefox?
Thanks!
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