On Sun, 25 Aug 2013 07:49:17 +0200 Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net> wrote: > On Sun, 2013-08-25 at 01:57 +0100, Sharon Kimble wrote: > > I genuinely don’t know what to do when my box loses > > sound. Its happened in just 20 minutes, whilst I was eating my tea, > > and I came back to find no sound at all. I tried restarting alsa, > > restarted mpd, neither of which worked, and I didn’t fancy killing > > the dbus-launch so I just had to reboot. What else could I have > > done please? > > I've got no idea where to start troubleshooting, so I would start > troubleshooting non-selective with mixer settings and the used sound > server. Is pulseaudio installed? > > Yes, pulseaudio is installed but disabled, it never runs and its not needed either. Pure alsa only :) I have on several occasions recently had kde and its phonon backend ask to forget some media hardware, except it wants to forget the default sound card! So every time I say no, but do just wonder whats causing it and can I stop it? I've also got a 'START' script - SUSE Terminal Audio Reporting Tool. But since I've got the script I cant remember the machine dropping the sound, perhaps its too scared to now? :) I also came across this little gem yesterday, but haven’t had the opportunity to try it out - try 'alsa force-reload && /etc/init.d/mpd restart' when sound lost. So, several things to try, if and when the sound falls off its perch again. Sharon. -- A taste of linux = http://www.sharons.org.uk efever = http://www.efever.blogspot.com/ efever = http://sharon04.livejournal.com/ Debian testing, Fluxbox 1.3.5, LibreOffice 4.1.0.4 Registered Linux user 334501
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