Well, I lost the sound again. I tried closing various programs that were open, Firefox, Flock, Sunbird, Azureus, Thunderbird, but none of them made any difference. I even closed pulseaudio via the System Monitor.
When trying to restart pulseaudio I get the following: $ pulseaudio W: pid.c: Stale PID file, overwriting. E: alsa-util.c: Error opening PCM device hw:0: Device or resource busy E: module.c: Failed to load module "module-alsa-sink" (argument: "device_id=0 sink_name=alsa_output.pci_1002_4383_sound_card_0_alsa_playback_0"): initialization failed. ALSA lib control.c:909:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL front:0 This seems to suggest that the soundcard is busy, even though there is currently no sound from it, nor anything that I can determine to be playing any audio. David David King wrote: > You may well be right. I downloaded Flashplayer 10, however, it was not > properly installed because version 9 was still installed via Synaptic, > so I uninstalled 9 and then Firefox was using 10.0.21. > > So far the sound is okay. > > David > > > Chris Coulson wrote: > >> 2009/1/7 Sean Miller <s...@seanmiller.net <mailto:s...@seanmiller.net>> >> >> I suspect Firefox may be your issue. >> >> I sometimes find that if I've done anything involving sound in Firefox >> then no other applications will get access to the sound. >> >> Sean >> >> -- >> ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com <mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com> >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk >> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ >> >> >> Quite likely indeed. David, are you using the proprietary Flash >> plugin? If so, which version? (I suspect it will be version 9). The >> error you're experiencing seems to be quite a common occurrence with >> Flash Player 9, and is much improved with Flash Player 10 in Intrepid. >> >> Regards >> Chris >> > > -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
