Re: how to get sound back?

2009-09-30 Thread Hugh Lawson
Marc Shapiro mshapiro...@yahoo.com writes: Since, in my case, it is almost alway Firefox that has caused the problem, I run the following script. Thanks, Marc. I copied that, and it runs. Thanks even more for taking the trouble to explain. Hugh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: how to get sound back?

2009-09-30 Thread Marc Shapiro
Hugh Lawson wrote: Marc Shapiro mshapiro...@yahoo.com writes: Since, in my case, it is almost alway Firefox that has caused the problem, I run the following script. Thanks, Marc. I copied that, and it runs. Thanks even more for taking the trouble to explain. I'm glad that I could help.

Re: how to get sound back?

2009-09-30 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 07:27, Marc Shapiro mshapiro...@yahoo.com wrote: Hugh Lawson wrote: Marc Shapiro mshapiro...@yahoo.com writes: Since, in my case, it is almost alway Firefox that has caused the problem, I run the following script. Thanks, Marc. I copied that, and it runs.  Thanks

how to get sound back?

2009-09-29 Thread Hugh Lawson
Debian lenny, alsa dpkg -l | grep alsa ii alsa-base1.0.17.dfsg-4 ALSA driver configuration files ii alsa-utils 1.0.16-2 ALSA utilities ii gstreamer0.10-alsa 0.10.19-2 GStreamer plugin for ALSA ii libsdl1.2debian-alsa 1.2.13-2 Yesterday, after running some .avi

Re: how to get sound back?

2009-09-29 Thread Neal Hogan
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 8:10 AM, Hugh Lawson hlaw...@triad.rr.com wrote: Debian lenny, alsa dpkg -l | grep alsa ii  alsa-base    1.0.17.dfsg-4      ALSA driver configuration files ii  alsa-utils   1.0.16-2           ALSA utilities ii  gstreamer0.10-alsa   0.10.19-2  GStreamer plugin for

Re: how to get sound back?

2009-09-29 Thread Marc Shapiro
Hugh Lawson wrote: Debian lenny, alsa dpkg -l | grep alsa ii alsa-base1.0.17.dfsg-4 ALSA driver configuration files ii alsa-utils 1.0.16-2 ALSA utilities ii gstreamer0.10-alsa 0.10.19-2 GStreamer plugin for ALSA ii libsdl1.2debian-alsa 1.2.13-2 Yesterday,

Re: how to get sound back?

2009-09-29 Thread gn643202
Hugh Lawson wrote: Debian lenny, alsa dpkg -l | grep alsa ii alsa-base1.0.17.dfsg-4 ALSA driver configuration files ii alsa-utils 1.0.16-2 ALSA utilities ii gstreamer0.10-alsa 0.10.19-2 GStreamer plugin for ALSA ii libsdl1.2debian-alsa 1.2.13-2 Yesterday,

Re: how to get sound back?

2009-09-29 Thread Hugh Lawson
Neal Hogan nealho...@gmail.com writes: On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 8:10 AM, Hugh Lawson hlaw...@triad.rr.com wrote: Yesterday, after running some .avi files with mplayer, my system lost sound. Rebooting brought the sound back. After you lose sound, what do you see when you run 'alsamixer -V

Re: how to get sound back?

2009-09-29 Thread Hugh Lawson
Marc Shapiro mshapiro...@yahoo.com writes: My system occasionally loses sound. In my case, it is invariably a runaway firefox process that was trying to play flash and something went wrong. I find the offending process (this is normally an extra process, separate from any currently active

Re: how to get sound back?

2009-09-29 Thread Neal Hogan
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Hugh Lawson hlaw...@triad.rr.com wrote: Neal Hogan nealho...@gmail.com writes: On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 8:10 AM, Hugh Lawson hlaw...@triad.rr.com wrote: Yesterday, after running some .avi files with mplayer, my system lost sound. Rebooting brought the sound

Re: how to get sound back?

2009-09-29 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 15:40:53 -0400, Hugh Lawson wrote: Marc Shapiro writes: My system occasionally loses sound. In my case, it is invariably a runaway firefox process that was trying to play flash and something went wrong. I find the offending process (this is normally an extra

Re: how to get sound back?

2009-09-29 Thread Marc Shapiro
Hugh Lawson wrote: Marc Shapiro mshapiro...@yahoo.com writes: My system occasionally loses sound. In my case, it is invariably a runaway firefox process that was trying to play flash and something went wrong. I find the offending process (this is normally an extra process, separate from any