On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 05:14:26PM -0400, Justin Stressman wrote: > On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 4:58 PM, <pete.goodeve@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > I realize this is a known problem, but am I just unlucky or is it > > still happening to others? Â (The old laptop is OSS, but the Dell is > > hda, and the ICH system it uses seems to be fully recognized, according > > to the syslog.) > > I've noticed this problem 2 or 3 times now in Virtualbox 3.2.8 running > recent revisions including 38589. (The first time or two it was right > after installing, and I thought I'd messed up the install, so I just > reinstalled and it coincidentally worked again.) > > This time the sound was working and then stopped. Eventually the sound > came back on, but it persisted through 2 restarts. I'm not sure if it > was just an odd virtualbox bug, or the same bug you're having trouble > with. > > I was playing an audio track fine, then it stopped working when I > tried to play a video... I tried the audio that I'd just been playing, > and it didn't work. I checked the volume etc... restarted... still > nothing. Restarted again... still wasn't working, but then a minute > later it just came back on again (I had the audio playing but no sound > was coming out... then the audio suddenly resumed). > This sounds pretty much exactly what I've been experiencing on hardware, so I doubt that it's specifically a Virtualbox thing. I just tried scanning Trac a bit, though it's hard to find relevant tickets because I'm not sure what to look for. There seem to be various tickets that could be the same problem, but it's a bit hard to tell. I did look at the syslog 'live' at one point, and noticed that audio buffers were being reported as *very* late -- 590 seconds, I think in one case! -- Pete -- >