On Mon 08 Oct 2018 at 14:34:26 (-0500), Kent West wrote: > On Mon, Oct 8, 2018 at 12:09 PM <dot...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Sorry for the subject not-so-specific but I hope this message can start a > > first iteration to better focus my problem. > > > > > Sounds roughly similar to a problem I've been having. I tracked it down to > Timidity grabbing the sound card. I don't know enough to make it fixed > permanently, but as a temporary fix after a reboot when the problem > manifests, I do a > > ps ax | grep timidity > > and then kill the Timidity process. Then my sound card gets recognized, and > I have audio until my next reboot.
I'm listening to a youtube video as I write this. Meanwhile: $ ps ax | grep -i 'timid\|mplay' 743 ? S 0:00 /usr/bin/timidity -Os -iAD 25430 pts/8 RLl+ 2:19 mplayer -nojoystick -fs -zoom Met Opera & CAI Present Verdi's Aida - 6th October 2018-qRQKuNcm0u4.mp4 25835 pts/14 S+ 0:00 grep -i timid\|mplay $ Cheers, David.