Re: Can't recover sound

2005-09-07 Thread Victor Munoz
On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 07:28:38PM +0200, Philippe Grenard wrote: > well, i assume you're running kde. Gnome, in fact. > in that case, you can start kcontrol, and find the sound and multimedia. > There > in "sound system" you can try to unselect and reselect "enable sound system", > then clic

Re: Can't recover sound

2005-09-07 Thread Philippe Grenard
Le Mercredi 07 Septembre 2005 05:37, Victor Munoz a écrit : > Hello. > > Sometimes I can't hear any sound (xmms, mplayer, play), getting things like > 'Device or resource busy'. This happened in woody, now in sarge, sometimes > in sid, and everytime it happens, I do a Google search to try to find a

Re: Can't recover sound

2005-09-07 Thread Victor Munoz
On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 09:59:37AM -0400, Michael Marsh wrote: > > Don't know if this helps, but I find that if I've used a java applet > in Firefox that uses sound, it never releases the sound device. The > solution for that has been to quit Firefox and re-start it. That also > tends to bring a

Re: Can't recover sound

2005-09-07 Thread Michael Marsh
On 9/6/05, Victor Munoz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sometimes I can't hear any sound (xmms, mplayer, play), getting things like > 'Device or resource busy'. This happened in woody, now in sarge, sometimes > in sid, and everytime it happens, I do a Google search to try to find a > solution smarter

Re: Can't recover sound

2005-09-07 Thread Victor Munoz
On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 03:00:03PM +0200, Joachim Fahnenmüller wrote: > > So you did 'ps aux' and checked for possibly existing processes, did you? I did. > Another tool might be lsof, but I'm not sure how to use it. This is a good tip, thank you. I tested and I can see that something like ls

Re: Can't recover sound

2005-09-07 Thread Joachim Fahnenmüller
Hi Victor, On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 12:37:35PM +0900, Victor Munoz wrote: > Hello. > > Sometimes I can't hear any sound (xmms, mplayer, play), getting things like > 'Device or resource busy'. This happened in woody, now in sarge, sometimes > in sid, and everytime it happens, I do a Google search t

Can't recover sound

2005-09-06 Thread Victor Munoz
Hello. Sometimes I can't hear any sound (xmms, mplayer, play), getting things like 'Device or resource busy'. This happened in woody, now in sarge, sometimes in sid, and everytime it happens, I do a Google search to try to find a solution smarter than rebooting, but never find an answer, so I have