** Description changed:
Sound stopped working after 'apt-get upgrade'.
Clicking on Volume Applet icon produces:
"No volume control GStreamer plugins and/or devices found."
System - Preferences - Sound - Autodetect - Test:
"audiotestsrc wave=sine freq=512 ! audioconvert ! audioresam
Public bug reported:
Sound stopped working after 'apt-get upgrade'.
Clicking on Volume Applet icon produces:
"No volume control GStreamer plugins and/or devices found."
System - Preferences - Sound - Autodetect - Test:
"audiotestsrc wave=sine freq=512 ! audioconvert ! audioresample !
gconfaudio
I can confirm the same behaviour in Dapper on Dell Latitude C840, P4
2.4, Intel 845 chipset and Fujitsu MHT2060AT hard disk.
Hard disk access subsystem is very slow with both -386 and -686 kernels.
`hdparm -tT /dev/hda` reports 3MB/s on average (DMA is on), but
fluctuates quite a bit, down to hund