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bpont
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 Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 4:43 am Post subject: Audio disappeared for unknown reason |
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I seemed to have lost audio for some unknown reason. I didn't emerge anything or tweak any settings...I just can't get audio with any application! The only clue I have is that I currently have two bittornado (bittorrent client) boxes open downloading two different torrents. I didn't want to close the apps just yet since I'm getting good bandwidth on them, so I was wondering if it could be interferring with my audio for some strange reason?? I can't imagine what else could have happened to block my audio!
Here is the output when I tried to play an audio file using madplay in a terminal:
| Quote: | MPEG Audio Decoder 0.15.2 (beta) - Copyright © 2000-2004 Robert Leslie et al.
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:862:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave
audio: esd_open_sound() failed |
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sageman
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| Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 7:02 pm Post subject: |
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Does
list your sound card?
Did you try "rmmod"ing and "modprobe"ing your sound card back in, then restarting ALSA? That usually does the trick for me, should something happen to my sound.
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bpont
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| Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 2:25 am Post subject: |
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| sageman wrote: | Does
list your sound card?
Did you try "rmmod"ing and "modprobe"ing your sound card back in, then restarting ALSA? That usually does the trick for me, should something happen to my sound. |
Actually, it was my bittorrent client (bittornado) that was somehow locking my audio device, so that no other app could access it! I don't even know why it would do this as it has no sound events so far as I can tell and there are no sound options in the preferences menu! How can I prevent this or any other app from locking down my sound device. It's nice to download a torrent in the background and still be able to have sound on my computer!! |
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