Re: [CentOS] Reset audio controller w/o rebooting?

2009-04-28 Thread John Doe
From: Barry Brimer li...@brimer.org I have similar problems in CentOS 5. I disable and enable the flash plugin in firefox, and it seems to be corrected. My problem may be slightly different, but this is how I 'fix' the problem. Same here, flash locks out the audio... mplayer gives me: Can't

[CentOS] Reset audio controller w/o rebooting?

2009-04-27 Thread Bart Schaefer
As I mentioned on a thread about flash-plugin a few days ago, I'm having trouble with my sound device getting stuck and thereby causing problems for anything that accesses it, like video playback. Rebooting the machine fixes it for a while, but it's unpredictable for how long -- sometimes months

Re: [CentOS] Reset audio controller w/o rebooting?

2009-04-27 Thread JohnS
On Mon, 2009-04-27 at 08:05 -0700, Bart Schaefer wrote: As I mentioned on a thread about flash-plugin a few days ago, I'm having trouble with my sound device getting stuck and thereby causing problems for anything that accesses it, like video playback. Rebooting the machine fixes it for a

Re: [CentOS] Reset audio controller w/o rebooting?

2009-04-27 Thread Barry Brimer
Quoting Bart Schaefer barton.schae...@gmail.com: As I mentioned on a thread about flash-plugin a few days ago, I'm having trouble with my sound device getting stuck and thereby causing problems for anything that accesses it, like video playback. Rebooting the machine fixes it for a while,

Re: [CentOS] Reset audio controller w/o rebooting?

2009-04-27 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 8:27 AM, JohnS jse...@gmail.com wrote: You do not have to reboot the machine every time it happens! Use the System Monitor Gnome Applet to kill what ever is using it. Unfortunately that doesn't help. Once the machine is in this state, then even after using lsof to

Re: [CentOS] Reset audio controller w/o rebooting?

2009-04-27 Thread JohnS
On Mon, 2009-04-27 at 08:45 -0700, Bart Schaefer wrote: On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 8:27 AM, JohnS jse...@gmail.com wrote: You do not have to reboot the machine every time it happens! Use the System Monitor Gnome Applet to kill what ever is using it. Unfortunately that doesn't help. Once

Re: [CentOS] Reset audio controller w/o rebooting?

2009-04-27 Thread Bart Schaefer
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 9:55 AM, JohnS jse...@gmail.com wrote: Ok then just a question to solve my thinking. What type of machine is this as in Brand. It's a custom-built desktop tower from Monarch Computer Systems, who seems to have gone out of business almost exactly two years ago. I'd

Re: [CentOS] Reset audio controller w/o rebooting?

2009-04-27 Thread JohnS
On Mon, 2009-04-27 at 12:43 -0700, Bart Schaefer wrote: On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 9:55 AM, JohnS jse...@gmail.com wrote: Ok then just a question to solve my thinking. What type of machine is this as in Brand. It's a custom-built desktop tower from Monarch Computer Systems, who seems to