On 26 June 2018 at 16:00, Kent West <we...@acu.edu> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 8:39 AM, Borden Rhodes <j...@bordenrhodes.com> > wrote: >> >> > In my case. "timidity" was causing my problem. Within X, I did a "sudo >> > kill
>> >> Yessir. The timidity update on 19 June messed up my sound, too. After >> a frustrating few hours of troubleshooting I discovered that timidity >> is hogging the sound server. >> >> Which brings us to the obvious question of how do you get Pulse to >> play nicely with Timidity? >> > > This morning I removed "timidity" from the "audio" group, and rebooted. All > seems well for me, but then, I don't use Timidity (to my knowledge - don't > really know what it is). I do notice that a "ps ax | grep timidity" does not > return anything. I had the same experience. What solved it for me was to edit /etc/default/timidity so that timidity does not run as daemon. That freed my audio-devices. Regards Johann -- Because experiencing your loyal love is better than life itself, my lips will praise you. (Psalm 63:3)