On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 15:40:53 -0400, Hugh Lawson wrote: > Marc Shapiro writes: > > > My system occasionally loses sound. In my case, it is invariably a > > runaway firefox process that was trying to play flash and something > > went wrong. I find the offending process (this is normally an extra > > process, separate from any currently active firefox process) and kill > > it and that will generally bring sound back without any more drastic > > actions. > > > That could have been the problem. > > Would you mind explaining a little more how you isolate the offending > process? Or post a reference URL that covers this issue?
lsof $(find /dev/ -group audio) will show all processes with open device nodes that belong to the audio group. (Run this command as root to ensure a complete list.) That should be sufficient to find the culprit. -- Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
