2009/4/30 Susan Cragin <susancra...@earthlink.net>: >>2009/4/29 Susan Cragin <susancra...@earthlink.net>: >>> I have tested the following and I believe found they were not the problem: >>--snip-- >>> (3) problem with pulseaudio >> >>How did you determine this? I thought you said your version of Ubuntu >>was crippled if pulseaudio was removed, so did you use pasuspender? If >>so, did you verify there was no pulseaudio process running while you >>were testing Wine? > > After I started my testing, I did run into problems when I tried to > re-install pulseaudio and then remove it, but the PA problem was unrelated. > Ubuntu said there was a PA bug, and issued a fix. After I applied the fix, no > more problems working with pulseaudio removed. So the whole thing was sort of > a red herring. > > I have re-installed my entire system since that problem went away, and > immediately purged pulseaudio, and that's where I'm working from now. Still > same problem.
OK, thanks for that clarification. So you've tracked the problem down to kernel version 2.6.29? What version of ALSA drivers are in your working and broken kernels?