Re: how to get sound back?
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Hugh Lawson <hlawson@triad.rr.com> wrote:
> Neal Hogan <nealhogan@gmail.com> writes:
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>> On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 8:10 AM, Hugh Lawson <hlawson@triad.rr.com> wrote:
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>>> Yesterday, after running some .avi files with mplayer, my system lost
>>> sound. Rebooting brought the sound back.
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>> After you lose
>> sound, what do you see when you run 'alsamixer -V all'?
>>
>> Perhaps there is something in alsamixer's manpage.
As someone else suggested, a "competing" app may cut sound. That is,
there may be another app that is trying to use mplayer as well.
Perhaps you can check what you have running when it it happens again.
#ps ax
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> Hugh again: I'll have to try that later, because sound is ok now.
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> hl
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