Kelly Clowers wrote:
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 23:51, Marc Shapiro <mshapiro_42@yahoo.com> wrote:Kelly Clowers wrote:On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 20:59, Marc Shapiro <mshapiro_42@yahoo.com> wrote:This is an intermittent problem with no discernible pattern, other than that it is a problem with sound and flash. Most of the time flash works just fine. Every now and then, however, the video will continue as it should, but the audio gets stuck in about a one second continuous loop. So far, I have to close Firefox down and usually I find that there is a runaway Firefox process that needs to be shut down as well (just like in the thread about getting sound back). Does anyone know how to fix this?I don't know about this problem specifically, but I stopped having FF/Flash/sound problems when I installed PulseAudio. Of course, many people are against PA, often along with most of the other useful modern desktop technologies...I have now installed PulseAudio (on Lenny) using aptitude. A total of 25 packages were installed. When I run paman, everything come up saying 'n/a' and the message says "Failure: Connection refused". All the other pa* commands also either hang, do nothing, or say "Connection refused". What am I doing wrong? Or do I just need to reboot after installation?Did you double check that it is running with ps? And that the environmental variable is set?
It wasn't. Running 'pulseaudio --check' returns nothing. Running 'pulseaudio' without any options returns:
---- W: main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_NICE, (31, 31)) failed: Operation not permitted W: main.c: setrlimit(RLIMIT_RTPRIO, (9, 9)) failed: Operation not permitted ALSA lib conf.c:3952:(snd_config_expand) Unknown parameters 0 ALSA lib pcm.c:2144:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM surround71:0 E: alsa-util.c: Error opening PCM device hw:0: Device or resource busyE: module.c: Failed to load module "module-alsa-sink" (argument: "device_id=0 sink_name=alsa_output.pci_1039_7012_alsa_playback_0"): initialization failed. W: alsa-util.c: Device front:0 doesn't support 44100 Hz, changed to 48000 Hz.
ALSA lib control.c:909:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL front:0 ---- Now, I know I must be missing something. -- Marc Shapiro mshapiro_42@yahoo.com