Mark de Wever wrote: > It sounds like an SDL-problem which has been reported before [1]. If it's > the same problem it should be solved by installing > libsdl1.2debian-pulseaudio as suggested by Rhonda [2].
That's not in unstable, but I have libsdl1.2debian installed. Pulseaudio is running, but not used by mplayer which was what was locking the sound device open. -- see shy jo
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