Hi Julian,
Thanks for getting back to me — and you pitched the advice at just the
right level :).
I had a chat with ohsix in #alsa after sending this email, and he
helped me find the root cause of the problem.
The issue was that consolekit was preventing access to the sound card
because it didn'
Hello Conrad!
Did you install anything new recently? Oder did you update something or
enable/not disable auto-update?
You have both pulseAudio and ESD sound servers. I'm not really sure which
one of them is used with desktops these days, but I think, that they block
normal ALSA access as a
Hi Alsa,
I'm having trouble with my new ThinkPad (which up until yesterday was
working fine).
Now, when I try to play audio (using mplayer) or change the volume
(using alsamixer) it works when I am on a tty, but when I start the X
server, it stops working.
Is this a normal problem?
The alsa_inf
