Debugging audio problems

[Bastien Nocera]

On Thu, 2008-06-19 at 11:32 -0600, Jerry James wrote:
> Is there a guide somewhere to debugging audio problems?  My son is mad
> at me, because I upgraded my home machine from F8 to F9, and now the
> sound is messed up on his favorite browser-based game
> (http://www.runescape.com/).  F8 plays the background music and sound
> effects together.  On F9, whenever a sound effect occurs, the
> background music stops, and the sound effects sometimes happen several
> seconds after they should have.  It's like the two audio streams are
> fighting each other for control of the sound card, where they used to
> play together.  I don't even know where to begin figuring out what is
> going wrong.  Any advice is much appreciated.  Thanks,

Is libflashsupport installed? Is pulseaudio running and working?