A few shutdowns/restarts later, it spontaneously started working again. Stupid computers. david wrote: > Yesterday it worked - could read and play MIDI through my keyboard, or > fluidsynth, and play regular audio stuff. > > Today, when I started up the system, KDE tells me: > >> Sound server informational message: >> Error while initializing the sound driver: >> device: default can't be opened for playback (No such file or directory) >> The sound server will continue, using the null output device. > > I use ALSA and the system is usually set for Autodetect, but get the > same results if I select ALSA. I should have known that nothing really > works "out of the box" with Linux ;-) What the hey happened and how can > I fix it? > > Running Debian testing. Did not update anything between the time it > worked and now. -- David gnome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx authenticity, honesty, community _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user