About a year and a half ago, after a lot of experimentation, I finally got sound working OK on my Debian Sid system. The solution turned out to be quite simple. To save others the same trouble, I put up a kind of "sound instruction" on my website (http://www.jw-stumpel.nl/dmix.html).
But something must have changed in Sid recently, because sound has become unreliable again. After I visit a sound-using site like youtube (let's call this "online sound"), sound will no longer be heard when playing a stored avi file with gmplayer, for instance ("offline sound"). To play offline sounds I have to kill iceweasel first (or call /etc/init.d/alsasound restart, which kills iceweasel as a side effect..). Well, I know this is Sid, which has this tendency of breaking things which work by "fixing" them. But normally these things get "re-fixed" after a few days. This new sound problem has now been going on for a few weeks. I cannot file a bug report about it because I have no way to know which program causes the problem. Any help appreciated. Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org