Sound Output Destination in Browser?

When I tried to start up Second Life this afternoon I got an alert that my 'bluetooth audio device' was not working properly, and consequently there'd be no sound coming from Second Life. The thing is, I do not, nor have I ever had, a bluetooth audio device. I do have bluetooth and I was using it earlier for data transfer but no audio device.

Now my Second Life experience is very, very quiet and it is frustrating me like crazy!

This is in both the regular browser and in First Look. I have a) deleted preferences and restarted, b) cleared cache and restarted, and c) deleted Second Life and reinstalled it.

All to no avail. It has its mind made up that it will only route audio to a nonexistant bluetooth device. I've even turned off bluetooth altogether! There is not now, nor has there ever been, a bluetooth audio device. >:-/

I've looked through the preferences, both in the browser, and directly via a text editor, and I can find no setting, anywhere, that selects where the audio goes. All my other audio works fine through the built-in speakers. System audio and application audio, everything is fine except Second Life.

System is: iMac Intel Core Duo, OS X 10.4.8 and SL has worked great here for 2 1/2 months.

Any ideas at all, as to how I can get Second Life audio to work again? Please?

-Atashi

p.s. How does one do a bug report? I looked in the Help area of the browser but didn't see anything about submitting a bug report.

I doubt that it is in SL more likely in your system, somehow.

Bluetooth is now OFF in the system prefs, right? then try these ideas:


1. Go into your menu: APPLE / system Preferences... / SOUND tab /OUTPUTS and be sure that the output is set to "Built-in Output". and that the MUTE box is not checked on.
2. Open Applications/Utilities/Audio Midi Setup. In Audio Devices, be sure that your two outputs are both set to system default. and that all output streams are set to 44100 Hz.

If this doesn't work, then
3. RePost this on the MAc Technical forum

Thanks for the tips Sterling. I'll head to the Mac technical forum...everything was set as you had stated. And, it is only SL that has this problem. All my other apps and system sounds come out the internal speakers properly. It's just SL that's borked.

-Atashi