Re: Unblocking sound card, or adding stream (newbie)
On Friday, 7. September 2007 06:30, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote:
> ...
> If theres no way to do this, bummer i guess. But my
> problem is that sometimes i seem to have something
> blocking the sound card and i cant figure out what it
> is. I dont THINK im running any sound thing ,but then
> if i try to run xmms i get a "something's blocking
> your sound card" message, or if i play a YouTube video
> i just get no sound at all.
>
> When this happens, how do i find out what's blocking
> hte sound card, and how do i kill this so i can play
> what i want?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Jen
If you're using ALSA, run
sudo /etc/init.d/alsa force-reload
But be careful, it'll kill the applications using alsa.
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