Hi Julian, Thanks for getting back to me — and you pitched the advice at just the right level :). I had a chat with ohsix in #alsa after sending this email, and he helped me find the root cause of the problem. The issue was that consolekit was preventing access to the sound card because it didn't realise that it was the same "me" logged into X as was logged in on the tty. Running ck-launch-session from inside my X session fixed this. I should have followed up here I found that out, Thank you again, Conrad On 26 May 2011 18:04, Julien Claassen <julien@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello Conrad! > Did you install anything new recently? Oder did you update something or > enable/not disable auto-update? > You have both pulseAudio and ESD sound servers. I'm not really sure which > one of them is used with desktops these days, but I think, that they block > normal ALSA access as a rule. You might write a .asoundrc for your home > directory setting the special pcm device pcm.!default to a dmix plugin. This > might allow you to use your normal soundcard, even while a sound server is > using the card as well. > did you try using a different soundcard (You seem to have three - or at > least two of them)? I don't know if mplayer supports puseAudio or ESD, not > running a desktop myself, but you could have a look at: > mplayer -ao help > This will print out a list of all supported devices. So you could say > something like: > mplayer -ao alsa,default file > Which would play using ALSA's default device. That's your default right > now. > OK, just looked it up on the man page, mplayer supports both ESD and > PulseAudio. Just check the manpage and experiment. To see which one is > running: > ps -ax | less > there you can easily search for esd or pulse. I hope this wasn't > underestimating your capabilities nor overestimating them. Good luck! > Warm regards > Julien > > -------- > Music was my first love and it will be my last (John Miles) > > ======== FIND MY WEB-PROJECT AT: ======== > http://ltsb.sourceforge.net > the Linux TextBased Studio guide > ======= AND MY PERSONAL PAGES AT: ======= > http://www.juliencoder.de > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ vRanger cuts backup time in half-while increasing security. With the market-leading solution for virtual backup and recovery, you get blazing-fast, flexible, and affordable data protection. Download your free trial now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/quest-d2dcopy1 _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
