On Sat, 01 Mar 2008 the mental interface of
Shai Berger told:
Package: alsa-base
Version: 1.0.16-1
Severity: normal
This bug seems related to #446968, but that bug seems mired in
mac-powerpc-specific device driver issues, whereas I am running an
Intel-based PC.
About once or twice a week, sound stops working on my system.
once or twice isn't characteristic for an intact computational
system?
Well, that's not exactly accurate; sound stops working for new
logins; if an old login is open when the problem starts, sound for
this session will usually (though not always) keep working. This
computer serves the whole family, and we use virtual consoles so
there are up to four sessions open at one time (none remote).
As reported in #446968, whenever this happens, applications which
try to use sound tend to hang; most annoyingly, flash hangs the
whole browser (of course, this is out of scope of this bug).
On my system, there doesn't seem to be an /etc/init.d/alsa as
mentioned in #446968; after reading other bugs, I've tried
/etc/init.d/alsa-utils reset
The alsa script resides in /usr/sbin/alsa since alsa-driver 1.0.15-1.
Check the changelogs ;)
and /etc/init.d/acpid restart, to no avail;
Isn't alsa relevant.
a reboot does solve the problem, so I guess I just need
to find out what it is that I need to restart. I hope it doesn't
turn out to be the kernel...
[...]
We're all using KDE arts, so maybe some of the problem is there;
next time this happens, I'll see if a new gnome session gets
sound. But I'm skeptic.
Seems to be an arts bug. Check the sound settings of your users.
Login a nother user on console (ctrl-alt-F2) and try to play a
soundfile (mplayer, madplay, ogg123 or what ever console app is
available)
||/ Name Version
+++--
ii libasound2 1.0.15-3
[...]
ii linux-sound-base 1.0.16-1
[...]
ii alsa-utils 1.0.15-3
Could you please update to the latest sid version?
Which driver version are you using?
$ cat /proc/asound/version
alsa-source 1.0.16 has many fixes for intel soundchips.
Elimar
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