Re: intermittent audio.
On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 01:38:37PM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> Audio works perfectly when it works, and continues to work at
> least until the audio user logs out.
> Oftern, though, it doesn't work. Not sure what the cause is.
> Rerunning alsaconf and accepting all the default choices usually
> fixes the problem.
> Any theories?
It happened yesterday, and I found out that my daughter had
rebooted the machine. Sound does tend to be off after a reboot, Evidently
something should be run at startup that alsaconf does for me.
I wonder what.
By the way, she rebooted because X froze up. That's been happeneing too -- suddenly
the machine becomes unresponsive te keyboard and mouse -- not even control-alt-F1
works. But logging from another machine via ssh still works, so Linux is
still up. I can kill -9 X and gdm, and then (and only then) unmount some
partitions cleanly to avoid a bad shutdown, and then I issue a reboot commend.
Killing X and gdm by themselves doesn't suffice to free up the mouse or keyboard,
unfortunately.
-- hendrik
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