Re: What is blocking my sound?

[James Allsopp <jamesaallsopp@googlemail.com>]

Hi,
I normally find that it's flash-related, so look for something like npviewer in the ps aux. Killing that normally resolves the problem. I've always had trouble with flash and sound on Debian and Red Hat, but not Gentoo for some reason. 
Jim

On 24 September 2010 15:20, Marc Shapiro <marcnshap@gmail.com> wrote:

On 09/23/10 18:42, T o n g wrote:

On Thu, 23 Sep 2010 18:11:09 -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote:

Usually the fix is to close all instances of Firefox until I find the
culprit, and sound returns.

The alternative to above headaches is use alsa as much as possible, not
oss! E.g.,

- use aplay instead of play.
- install libsox-fmt-alsa so that sox (ie play) uses alsa interface
instead of oss.

HTH

The last time I tried aplay, it did not work.  I don't remember what the problem was.  If I simply use aplay to try and play the file I get the same error.  I will have to power down the machine and try it again when I get a chance.  No time this weekend.

On 09/23/10 19:14, Felipe Sateler wrote:

>
> lsof /dev/snd/* /dev/dsp /dev/sndstat
>

This returns nothing, but I am still getting the same error when I try to play the file.

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