-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: | I'm not sure whether this will help: | | AFAIK the Volume Control applet is, at least here, connected to | /dev/mixer ... so if /dev/mixer is stopped, you'll probably have the | dialog box you've mentioned. | | It should be possible to verify this with a simple | fuser -v /dev/mixer | (The Volume Control applet has to be working to verify it) | If you then see something like that: | | USER PID ACCESS COMMAND | /dev/mixer <username> 1283 f.... mixer_applet2 | | and then stop the process that is connected to /dev/mixer with a | | kill <PID> | | you'll probably see the Applet's Dialog window you've previously | mentioned. | At least this is happening here, on | Titanium IV, unstable, Gnome, and 2.4.24-ben1 | | So perhaps something goes wrong with /dev/mixer | when resuming the machine from sleep. | If this is true: I definitely don't know how to handle this situation, | but at least you'd know what the problem is then. | | HTH | And Good Luck. | | Best Regards | Wolfgang
This little experiment did in fact generate the same behavior. Stefano Zacchiroli discovered that this dialog box actually appears *as* the machine enters sleep, not on wakeup, as I had originally thought. Many Thanks, Brady -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFAgsdL2NnPoJvJ3hcRAo4bAKDrIg3ocFjak7lIhp/NmYpOSNpllwCg4j8O e17j7a88mC9tqYL+Kv9MC2k= =YecQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----