Re: sound problem

["Hans-J. Ullrich" <hans.ullrich@loop.de>]

Am Freitag, 13. Mai 2011 schrieb Larry Bates:
> After a recent upgrade, sound stopped working on my testing box.
> 
> For example, trying to play a .wav file, one would see the following:
> 
> bates@symplectic:$ play *.wav
> ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1018:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave
> play FAIL formats: can't open output file `default': snd_pcm_open error:
> Device or resource busy
> 
> Mucking about a bit, it seems that pulseaudio is at least partially the
> culprit:
> 
> bates@symplectic:$ ps caugx | grep pul
> 115       1839  1.0  0.1  93220  4148 ?        Ssl  13:41   0:01 pulseaudio
> bates     2240  0.4  0.1  85292  3196 ?        Ssl  13:42   0:00 pulseaudio
> 
> bates@symplectic:$ su
> Password:
> root@symplectic:# kill 1839
> root@symplectic:# exit
> 
> And now when I try:
> 
> bates@symplectic:$ play *.wav
> 
> everything is fine.
> 
> I suppose the question should be how do I stop PID 115 from turning on
> pulseaudio on boot.  Any tips gratefully appreciated.
> 
> Larry Bates

Hi Larry,

I am using rcconf to control, which processes should be started at boot. It is 
easy to use (nice ncurses GUI), so you can easy try things and can easy switch 
back. Just try it!

Good luck!

Hans