On Thu, 26 Feb 2009 09:45:28 +0100
wwp wrote:
not sure it is pulseaudio to blame yet (and again), maybe simply an
Alsa bug or incompatibility. I've recently installed Fedora 10 on a
brand new Dell Latitude E6500 laptop.
Few hours after the system has booted (an unpredictable amount of time)
sounds are simply not playing anymore - tried w/ apps, aplay, mplayer.
Did somebody experience the same? Or any clue where to investigate or
find a fix?
I too occasionally lose my sound on Fedora 10. The solution that I've found is
as follows.
First, use this command to find out if something is blocking the sound:
fuser -v /dev/snd/* /dev/dsp*
If you see a problem you can use a kill command to get rid of the task that's
causing the problem.
To restart pulseaudio use this command:
pulseaudio -k ; pulseaudio -D --log-target=syslog
This gets the sound back for me every time that I've lost it, so far anyway.
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