Sound playback problem

HI there, my daughters iphone 4S is having playback sound issues.  no sound comes from the phone when playing music.  it used to work just with the headphones in, but even that does not work now.  tried blowing air in the jack but not worked.  any answers?

thoffmeyer wrote:Are you running alsa or oss?
Oh, sorry, I'm running alsa.
EDIT: I've figured out what was the problem. Apparently, the flash plugin keeps working even after I close the tab or the browser (the process can be seen in the Gnome system monitor). Killing the process fixes the issue. I have to investigate if it's a problem with flash, although probably it's because I'm using Firefox 4.0 Beta 8.
Last edited by guidito73 (2011-01-06 22:06:11)

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