My computer has also started going silent recently. I currently work around the problem by
1.) Closing audio applications, 2.) typing this as root "rmmod snd_via82xx && modprobe snd_via82xx" 3.) and restarting the audio application If anyone happens to know why, I'd appreciate an explanation. The two workarounds mentioned in bug report #428454 didn't work for me. These versions were installed on my computer, but I may upgrade some soon kernel 2.6.18-4-k7 ii alsa-base 1.0.13-1 ALSA driver configuration files ii alsa-modules-2.4.19-aa1 0.9.0rc6+3+p0+10.00.Custom Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (drivers) ii alsa-modules-2.4.27-1-k7 1.0.6a+5 ALSA driver modules ii alsa-oss 1.0.12-1 ALSA wrapper for OSS applications ii alsa-source 0.9.0rc6-3 ALSA driver source ii alsa-utils 1.0.9a-4 ALSA utilities rc alsaconf 0.4.3b-4 ALSA configurator ii alsaplayer 0.99.72-3 PCM player designed for ALSA ii alsaplayer-alsa 0.99.76-9 PCM player designed for ALSA (ALSA output mo ii alsaplayer-common 0.99.75-5 PCM player designed for ALSA (common files) ii alsaplayer-esd 0.99.71-3 PCM player designed for ALSA (ESD output mod ii alsaplayer-gtk 0.99.72-3 PCM player designed for ALSA (GTK version) rc alsaplayer-text 0.99.71-3 PCM player designed for ALSA (text version) ii arts 1.4.3-3 sound system from the official KDE release rc cecilia 2.0.5-1 graphic user interface for CSound rc clanlib2-sound 0.6.3-1-1 Sound module for ClanLib game SDK ii ecasound 2.0.4-2 Multitrack-capable audio recorder and effect ii esound 0.2.28-2 Enlightened Sound Daemon - Support binaries ii esound-common 0.2.36-3 Enlightened Sound Daemon - Common files ii gstreamer0.10-alsa 0.10.10-2 GStreamer plugin for ALSA ii kmix 3.5.5-2 sound mixer applet for KDE ii krec 3.5.5-2 sound recorder utility for KDE rc kwave 0.6.3-12 A sound editor for KDE2. rc libalsaplayer0 0.99.72-3 PCM player designed for ALSA (interface libr rc libarts 2.2.2-13 aRts Sound system rc libarts1 1.3.2-3 aRts Sound system rc libarts1-glib 1.0.2-0 aRts Sound system (glib support libraries) rc libarts1-qt 1.0.4-1 aRts Sound system (qt/x11 support libraries) ii libarts1c2a 1.5.5-1 aRts sound system core components ii libartsc0 1.5.5-1 aRts sound system C support library ii libasound2 1.0.13-1 ALSA library ii libecasound7 2.0.4-1 shared libraries for ecasound ii libesd-alsa0 0.2.36-3 Enlightened Sound Daemon (ALSA) - Shared lib rc libesd0 0.2.36-1 Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared libraries ii libesd0-dev 0.2.36-3 Enlightened Sound Daemon - Development files rc libkmid 2.2.2-13 aRts Sound system (midi/kmedia support libra ii libkvutils2 2.0.4-1 kvutils library required for ecasound ii libmikmod2 3.1.10-3 A portable sound library ii libsdl-sound1.2 1.0.1-3 Decoder of several sound file formats for SD rc libsdl1.2debian-alsa 1.2.11-7 Simple DirectMedia Layer (with X11 and ALSA ii libsndfile0 0.0.28-0.3 Library for reading/writing audio files ii libsndfile1 1.0.11-1 Library for reading/writing audio files ii libsndfile1-dev 1.0.11-1 Library for reading/writing audio files ii libsoundtouch1 1.2.1-5 sound stretching library ii linux-sound-base 1.0.9b-4 base package for ALSA and OSS sound systems ii mcp-plugins 0.3.0-1 LADSPA plugins designed for Alsa Modular Syn rc mixviews 1.20-18 Powerful soundfile editor. rc mpg123-alsa 0.61-2 MPEG layer 1/2/3 audio player with ALSA supp ii snack 1.6.5-2.1 Sound functionality extension to the Tcl/Tk ii sndfile-programs 1.0.10-1 Sample programs that use libsndfile ii sox 13.0.0-1 Swiss army knife of sound processing ii splay 0.8.2-12 Sound player for MPEG-1,2 layer 1,2,3 ii sweep 0.9.0-2 An editor for sound samples ii vlc-plugin-alsa 0.8.6-svn20061012.debian-1 dummy transitional package ii vsound 0.5-7 Virtual loopback sound recorder and real aud ii wave 1.0-2 generate sound waveforms ii xmix 2.1-6 X11-based interface to the Linux sound drive ii xmms2-plugin-alsa 0.2DrFeelgood-4 XMMS2 - ALSA output ii xwave 0.6+2-7 Wave sound file editor Thanks, Kingsley -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]