I tried out the new client today (on 64-but 8.04 Ubuntu) and was pleasently surprised to see Voice connected... then I found I had no audio in the program. At all.
Audio works everywhere else, so it's not the system. I tried different combinations of enabling and disabling the drivers in the launch script, and nada. I then tried launching an older client, and it didn't have any sound either.
Anyone know what this could have broken, that would kill audio not just for it, but for any version of SL?
*edit* ... and of course after I post this, I log in to see if I can find someone in-world to help, and discover that the sound works AFTER I login, but not before. Weird.