Hi,

Yes, I get a popup from the notifier in kicker that says something like 
"Alsa output device is not working", but in swedish. But when sound is working 
for some time after logging in, then that message does not popup. It pops up if 
sound gets broken almost immediately after logging in.

I just played around and played some videoclips from swedish television at 
svt.se booted as a thinclient and it worked for some minutes. In syslog I get 
some notifications about events being surpressed. It starts from when I start 
playing a videoclip until I close Iceweasel. (Even though Im not playing 
anything anymore.) 

>From syslog;

Mar 21 14:25:46 ltsp24 pulseaudio[2662]: ratelimit.c: 331 events suppressed

Mar 21 14:25:46 ltsp24 pulseaudio[2662]: ratelimit.c: 331 events suppressed

Mar 21 14:25:51 ltsp24 pulseaudio[2662]: ratelimit.c: 257 events suppressed

Mar 21 14:25:51 ltsp24 pulseaudio[2662]: ratelimit.c: 257 events suppressed

Mar 21 14:25:56 ltsp24 pulseaudio[2662]: ratelimit.c: 234 events suppressed

Mar 21 14:25:56 ltsp24 pulseaudio[2662]: ratelimit.c: 234 events suppressed

Mar 21 14:26:01 ltsp24 pulseaudio[2662]: ratelimit.c: 234 events suppressed

Mar 21 14:26:01 ltsp24 pulseaudio[2662]: ratelimit.c: 234 events suppressed

Mar 21 14:26:06 ltsp24 pulseaudio[2662]: ratelimit.c: 234 events suppressed

Mar 21 14:26:06 ltsp24 pulseaudio[2662]: ratelimit.c: 234 events suppressed

Mar 21 14:26:11 ltsp24 pulseaudio[2662]: ratelimit.c: 234 events suppressed

Mar 21 14:26:11 ltsp24 pulseaudio[2662]: ratelimit.c: 234 events suppressed

Mar 21 14:26:16 ltsp24 pulseaudio[2662]: ratelimit.c: 234 events suppressed

When sound stops working I can see this in syslog;
Mar 21 14:28:56 ltsp24 pulseaudio[2662]: alsa-source.c: snd_pcm_avail: Enhet 
eller resurs upptagen
Mar 21 14:28:56 ltsp24 pulseaudio[2662]: alsa-source.c: snd_pcm_avail: Enhet 
eller resurs upptagen
(Enhet eller resurs upptagen=resource busy)





--- Den ons 2012-03-21 skrev Steven Chamberlain <[email protected]>:

Från: Steven Chamberlain <[email protected]>
Ämne: Re: SV: Problems with sound on thin clients (Was: Unidentified subject!)
Till: "George" <[email protected]>
Kopia: [email protected]
Datum: onsdag 21 mars 2012 14:17

On 21/03/12 13:05, George wrote:
> "Alsa output device is not working" (translated from swedish)
> It pops up right after login or after some time when running as
> thinclient. Not if you run the same client as diskless workstation though.

pulseaudio emulates an 'alsa output device' (called pulse).  The
/etc/asound.conf should tell applications to use that as their 'alsa
output device'.

So it could still be a problem with pulseaudio.  You could check syslog
for any errors from pulseaudio.

Regards,
-- 
Steven Chamberlain
[email protected]

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