[NTLUG:Discuss] sound stop working

[Fred James]

Mike Hart wrote:

>Log into X as root. Does the sound work? If it does
>look carefully at the process tables (ctrl-esc will
>start the process table) between root and your user
>acct and kill whatever is active only in the user
>acct. 
>
>Mandriva saves your session by default, so some dead
>processes will restart on a logout/login, even on a
>cold boot.  You can find the option to 'save session'
>in the system settings. 
>
>--- Fred James <fredjame at fredjame.cnc.net> wrote:
>
>  
>
>>All
>>New laptop - sound was working, then stopped.
>>Connected known working speakers to sound output
>>jack (head phone) and 
>>still no sound.
>>What can I do to check this out, and maybe fix it?
>>Thank you in advance for any help you maybe able to
>>offer
>>Regards
>>Fred James
>>
>>Mandriva 2007
>>Gateway MX8734
>>
>>    
>>
Mike Hart
Sorry it took me so long to get back to this, but I finally have 
something to compare ... the major differences seem to be ...
When the sound is working ...
< /etc/X11/X -br -deferglyphs 16 :0 vt7 -auth /var/run/xauth/A:0-LJ4tSb
< /usr/bin/artsd -F 10 -S 4096 -s 60 -m artsmessage -l 3 -f

When the sound is not working ...
 > /etc/X11/X -br -deferglyphs 16 :0 vt7 -auth /var/run/xauth/A:0-Vw1cUY

Does that make any sense, or am I going down the wrong rabbit hole?  
Thank you in advance for any help you may be able to offer
Regards
Fred James