On Tuesday, 20 December 2005 12:19, Efraim Yawitz wrote: > I have a cmedia sound card: > > which has worked fine for quite a while, but lately it seems to stop > working after the computer has been on for only a few hours >
The following is nothing but a wild guess, but it's worth trying. Over the years, I've had a lot of strange experiences with alsa and various sound cards. Almost all of them turned out to be simply a problem with the mixer volume. For whatever reason, the alsa mixer sometimes changes the volume setting (of course, there's some external(s) program(s) that do(es) that, but every time this happened it turned out to be some other application). This might explain why when you reboot, the mixer settings are 'reset' and sound returns. So next time this happens, run $ alsamixer and see if ANY of the mixer channels changed (I do mean *any*). Hope that helps. > Ephraim -- - Aviram ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
