It sounds like you have pulseaudio installed and its interfearing with your applications. TO get things to work, you can do one fo the following:
* Remove the pulseaudio package or * Go into the settings for KDE's audio, and change the backend that phonon should use to pulseaudio. -- Cannot use more than one sound device at a time https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/463716 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs