Re: how to get sound back?

[Neal Hogan <nealhogan@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 8:10 AM, Hugh Lawson <hlawson@triad.rr.com> wrote:
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> Debian lenny, alsa
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> dpkg -l | grep alsa
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> 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 ALSA
> ii  libsdl1.2debian-alsa 1.2.13-2
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> Yesterday, after running some .avi files with mplayer, my system lost
> sound. Rebooting brought the sound back.
>
> How could I have restarted sound without rebooting?

I don't know why you're losing sound, but I'm curious. After you lose
sound, what do you see when you run 'alsamixer -V all'?

Perhaps there is something in alsamixer's manpage.

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> Hugh
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