Re: how to get sound back?
Marc Shapiro mshapiro...@yahoo.com writes: Since, in my case, it is almost alway Firefox that has caused the problem, I run the following script. Thanks, Marc. I copied that, and it runs. Thanks even more for taking the trouble to explain. Hugh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: how to get sound back?
Hugh Lawson wrote: Marc Shapiro mshapiro...@yahoo.com writes: Since, in my case, it is almost alway Firefox that has caused the problem, I run the following script. Thanks, Marc. I copied that, and it runs. Thanks even more for taking the trouble to explain. I'm glad that I could help. This just means that my problems helped someone else. -- Marc Shapiro mshapiro...@yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: how to get sound back?
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 07:27, Marc Shapiro mshapiro...@yahoo.com wrote: Hugh Lawson wrote: Marc Shapiro mshapiro...@yahoo.com writes: Since, in my case, it is almost alway Firefox that has caused the problem, I run the following script. Thanks, Marc. I copied that, and it runs. Thanks even more for taking the trouble to explain. I'm glad that I could help. This just means that my problems helped someone else. It's odd, I used to have that problem, but not in a very long time - back in the FF 2.0/Flash 9/pre-PulseAudio days is when it used to happen. Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
how to get sound back?
Debian lenny, alsa dpkg -l | grep alsa ii alsa-base1.0.17.dfsg-4 ALSA driver configuration files ii alsa-utils 1.0.16-2 ALSA utilities ii gstreamer0.10-alsa 0.10.19-2 GStreamer plugin for ALSA ii libsdl1.2debian-alsa 1.2.13-2 Yesterday, after running some .avi files with mplayer, my system lost sound. Rebooting brought the sound back. How could I have restarted sound without rebooting? Hugh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: how to get sound back?
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 8:10 AM, Hugh Lawson hlaw...@triad.rr.com wrote: Debian lenny, alsa dpkg -l | grep alsa ii alsa-base 1.0.17.dfsg-4 ALSA driver configuration files ii alsa-utils 1.0.16-2 ALSA utilities ii gstreamer0.10-alsa 0.10.19-2 GStreamer plugin for ALSA ii libsdl1.2debian-alsa 1.2.13-2 Yesterday, after running some .avi files with mplayer, my system lost sound. Rebooting brought the sound back. How could I have restarted sound without rebooting? I don't know why you're losing sound, but I'm curious. After you lose sound, what do you see when you run 'alsamixer -V all'? Perhaps there is something in alsamixer's manpage. Hugh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: how to get sound back?
Hugh Lawson wrote: Debian lenny, alsa dpkg -l | grep alsa ii alsa-base1.0.17.dfsg-4 ALSA driver configuration files ii alsa-utils 1.0.16-2 ALSA utilities ii gstreamer0.10-alsa 0.10.19-2 GStreamer plugin for ALSA ii libsdl1.2debian-alsa 1.2.13-2 Yesterday, after running some .avi files with mplayer, my system lost sound. Rebooting brought the sound back. How could I have restarted sound without rebooting? My system occasionally loses sound. In my case, it is invariably a runaway firefox process that was trying to play flash and something went wrong. I find the offending process (this is normally an extra process, separate from any currently active firefox process) and kill it and that will generally bring sound back without any more drastic actions. -- Marc Shapiro mshapiro...@yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: how to get sound back?
Hugh Lawson wrote: Debian lenny, alsa dpkg -l | grep alsa ii alsa-base1.0.17.dfsg-4 ALSA driver configuration files ii alsa-utils 1.0.16-2 ALSA utilities ii gstreamer0.10-alsa 0.10.19-2 GStreamer plugin for ALSA ii libsdl1.2debian-alsa 1.2.13-2 Yesterday, after running some .avi files with mplayer, my system lost sound. Rebooting brought the sound back. How could I have restarted sound without rebooting? I just got my sound back after 2 months without it. This has happened before. THE PROBLEM WAS THAT THE JACKS WERE NOT PLUGGED IN ALL THE WAY. Yes I know that was dumb of me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: how to get sound back?
Neal Hogan nealho...@gmail.com writes: On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 8:10 AM, Hugh Lawson hlaw...@triad.rr.com wrote: Yesterday, after running some .avi files with mplayer, my system lost sound. Rebooting brought the sound back. After you lose sound, what do you see when you run 'alsamixer -V all'? Perhaps there is something in alsamixer's manpage. Hugh again: I'll have to try that later, because sound is ok now. hl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: how to get sound back?
Marc Shapiro mshapiro...@yahoo.com writes: My system occasionally loses sound. In my case, it is invariably a runaway firefox process that was trying to play flash and something went wrong. I find the offending process (this is normally an extra process, separate from any currently active firefox process) and kill it and that will generally bring sound back without any more drastic actions. That could have been the problem. Would you mind explaining a little more how you isolate the offending process? Or post a reference URL that covers this issue? HL -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: how to get sound back?
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Hugh Lawson hlaw...@triad.rr.com wrote: Neal Hogan nealho...@gmail.com writes: On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 8:10 AM, Hugh Lawson hlaw...@triad.rr.com wrote: Yesterday, after running some .avi files with mplayer, my system lost sound. Rebooting brought the sound back. After you lose sound, what do you see when you run 'alsamixer -V all'? Perhaps there is something in alsamixer's manpage. As someone else suggested, a competing app may cut sound. That is, there may be another app that is trying to use mplayer as well. Perhaps you can check what you have running when it it happens again. #ps ax Hugh again: I'll have to try that later, because sound is ok now. hl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: how to get sound back?
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 15:40:53 -0400, Hugh Lawson wrote: Marc Shapiro writes: My system occasionally loses sound. In my case, it is invariably a runaway firefox process that was trying to play flash and something went wrong. I find the offending process (this is normally an extra process, separate from any currently active firefox process) and kill it and that will generally bring sound back without any more drastic actions. That could have been the problem. Would you mind explaining a little more how you isolate the offending process? Or post a reference URL that covers this issue? lsof $(find /dev/ -group audio) will show all processes with open device nodes that belong to the audio group. (Run this command as root to ensure a complete list.) That should be sufficient to find the culprit. -- Regards,| http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: how to get sound back?
Hugh Lawson wrote:
Marc Shapiro mshapiro...@yahoo.com writes:
My system occasionally loses sound. In my case, it is invariably a
runaway firefox process that was trying to play flash and something
went wrong. I find the offending process (this is normally an extra
process, separate from any currently active firefox process) and kill
it and that will generally bring sound back without any more drastic
actions.
That could have been the problem.
Would you mind explaining a little more how you isolate the offending
process? Or post a reference URL that covers this issue?
Since, in my case, it is almost alway Firefox that has caused the
problem, I run the following script. All it does is parse the output of
'ps' and lists all Firefox processes that it finds. Usually there
should be three: one each for myself, my wife and my daughter. Anything
beyond that is suspect. If you should only have a single instance of
Firefox then shut it down and run this script. If it finds anything
then it probably needs to be killed. I also use this script to find
which of the three Firefox processes is hogging all of the memory, or
CPU time when the system grinds to a standstill.
#!/usr/bin/perl
check_ps;
exit();
# Subroutines #
sub check_ps {
@message=`ps -eo pid,uid,%cpu,%mem,comm`;
$message_text='';
foreach (@message) {
($pid, $uid, $cpu, $mem, $comm) = split(' ', $_, 5);
chomp $comm;
if ($uid = 1000) {
if ($comm eq 'firefox-bin') {
print $_;
}
}
}
}
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