Am Freitag, 13. Mai 2011 schrieb Larry Bates: > After a recent upgrade, sound stopped working on my testing box. > > For example, trying to play a .wav file, one would see the following: > > bates@symplectic:$ play *.wav > ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1018:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave > play FAIL formats: can't open output file `default': snd_pcm_open error: > Device or resource busy > > Mucking about a bit, it seems that pulseaudio is at least partially the > culprit: > > bates@symplectic:$ ps caugx | grep pul > 115 1839 1.0 0.1 93220 4148 ? Ssl 13:41 0:01 pulseaudio > bates 2240 0.4 0.1 85292 3196 ? Ssl 13:42 0:00 pulseaudio > > bates@symplectic:$ su > Password: > root@symplectic:# kill 1839 > root@symplectic:# exit > > And now when I try: > > bates@symplectic:$ play *.wav > > everything is fine. > > I suppose the question should be how do I stop PID 115 from turning on > pulseaudio on boot. Any tips gratefully appreciated. > > Larry Bates
Hi Larry, I am using rcconf to control, which processes should be started at boot. It is easy to use (nice ncurses GUI), so you can easy try things and can easy switch back. Just try it! Good luck! Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201105132238.26230.hans.ullr...@loop.de