Comment 140 for bug 191027

Same problem hear after upgrading to Intrepid: I can hear the login sound but, after that, Totem is unable to play any movie or sound and I get the "Failed to connect stream" error when I press the test button in the sound preferences panel.

If I change my sound preferences to alsa or oss the sound tests are OK and if I kill pulseaudio from a console and start it again with "pulseaudio &" everything start to work, but when I restart the problem appears again.

So, as a summary, I can hear the login sound and I get the sound working again if I kill and restart pulseaudio manually.

Some technical details:

$ lspci
...
00:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq 5880 AudioPCI (rev 02)
...

$ dpkg -l libasound*
+++-=========================-=========================-==================================================================
ii libasound2 1.0.17a-0ubuntu3 ALSA library
ii libasound2-plugins 1.0.17-0ubuntu4 ALSA library additional plugins

Thanks for working on this. Can i help further?