It seems the order Phonon tries with the sound devices is not very wise, on my machine, it tries (in that order): 1) HDA Intel Analog which would fail if Pulse is using it; 2) Intel HDMI which doesn't even report a failure but is always silent 3) PulseAudio The most sane choice. But due to 2, it's not gonna be attempted
I worked around the problem by installing systemsettings, and changed the preferred device in "Multimedia" to PulseAudio. Eh, how messy -- no sound from amarok 2 in (ubuntu) jaunty https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/368230 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