sound stops working on F10

[Frank Cox]

On Fri, 02 Jan 2009 14:55:05 -0500
Mail Lists wrote:

> 
>   Sound is a bit quirky - sometimes i hear things sometimes I dont.
> 
>   Now it has stopped working - a reboot fixes it. I do see this in the
> logs ...

I too occasionally lose my sound on Fedora 10.  The solution that I've found is
as follows.

First, use this command to find out if something is blocking the sound:

fuser -v /dev/snd/* /dev/dsp*

If you see a problem you can use a kill command to get rid of the task that's
causing the problem.

To restart pulseaudio use this command:

pulseaudio -k ; pulseaudio -D --log-target=syslog

This gets the sound back for me every time that I've lost it, so far anyway.





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