On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 9:01 PM, NoBaloney Jeff <jpli...@nobaloney.net> wrote: > Then at some point the sound just stops. No more sound. No more alarm > sounds, no more filter sounds, no more music. Rebooting sometimes helps; > sometimes doesn't. Same thing with switch-users. Sometimes the newly logged > in user has sound; sometimes it doesn't. > > Then all of a sudden, perhaps a day or later, I get a sound when an alarm > comes in, or when an email triggers a filter, and sound is good again. Only > to repeat the cycle continuously. >
Something is likely grabbing the /dev/dsp before the sound daemon can. Typical culprit for me was gaim (pidgin) grabbing /dev/dsp before pulse (the gnome sound daemon, can't remember what the kde one is called). Then all apps which attempt to use pulse no longer played while gaim made it's array of sounds. I'd do an lsof and see if any app other than your sound daemon has /dev/dsp (or some sound related device) open. Regards... Todd -- If Americans could eliminate sugary beverages, potatoes, white bread, pasta, white rice and sugary snacks, we would wipe out almost all the problems we have with weight and diabetes and other metabolic diseases. -- Dr. Walter Willett, Harvard School of Public Health _______________________________________________ LinuxUsers mailing list LinuxUsers@socallinux.org http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers
