There was a thread about a week ago with this title. I have only just subscribed (again - had been unsubscribed for about a month) and noticed this when looking at the problem I have.
I was running standard debian kernel-image-2.6.2-1-k7 and kde/sound was working fine (kde3.2 from experimental). I upgraded to kernel-image-2.6.3-1-k7 and all of a sudden this syrup effect happened as I was starting up kde. It would last for a few minutes, but then clear away and not be a problem. I took this to be a sound problem with the new release of the kernel - and have filed a bug report on it, especially as I was able to switch between the the two versions of the kernel and see the effect come and go. However, at some point I must have screwed with something because now I can't get sound to work properly. Log in as root, and sound for the startup and shutdown notifications work fine. Login as me (and I am a member of the audio group) and I get no sound out of kde. At least I get no start up or shut down notification, and going into kcontrol and trying to play the wave files given for the system notification results in silence. However, I can, for instance, use juk to play my mp3 files without a problem. I get this message in my .xsession-errors file kmixctrl: ERROR: Alsa mixer cannot be found. Please check that the soundcard is installed and the soundcard driver is loaded. kmixctrl: kmixctrl: ERROR: Alsa mixer cannot be found. Please check that the soundcard is installed and the soundcard driver is loaded. kmixctrl: but I know that is all loaded and working - and the permissions on all /dev/<sound stuff> writable by audio group of which I am a member. Anyone out there any ideas on what is going wrong here? -- Alan Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED]