On Friday 30 December 2011 21:43:54 Michael Mol wrote:

> Anyway, what are you using to try to play audio? A Pulse client? An ALSA
> client?

The BBC Radio 3 iPlayer, and of course the KDE start and stop sounds.

I've recompiled several packages today, in particular phonon, phonon-kde and 
phonon-gstreamer. Sound has suddenly reappeared. So whatever the problem 
was it seems to have been solved.

Incidentally, I had been having to keep turning the speaker volume control 
up to hear anything, but this evening it's almost fully down.

I wish I understood all this, but thank you anyway, all those who've offered 
help.

-- 
Rgds
Peter		Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23