Re: how to get sound back?

[Marc Shapiro <mshapiro_42@yahoo.com>]

Hugh Lawson 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 ALSA
> ii  libsdl1.2debian-alsa 1.2.13-2   
>
>
> 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?

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 firefox process) and kill it and that 
will generally bring sound back without any more drastic actions.

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Marc Shapiro
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