On Sun, 2007-08-26 at 11:11 -0700, Dan Stromberg wrote: > > A few weeks ago, something (probably a software install via synaptic) > switched me from alsa (with OSS emulation) to pulse (for which I set > up ALSA emulation). > > I'm OK with that, but it's brought a problem with it. Sound keeps > stopping working. If I log out and back in, it'll usually work for > hours or days, and then stop again. > > mplayer gives the following sort of error during the problem: --snip-- > $ mplayer -vo sdl -ao alsa ~/movie/happyfeet/1/happy_feet.mkv --snip-- > *** PULSEAUDIO: Unable to connect: Connection terminated > alsa-init: playback open error: Connection refused > Could not open/initialize audio device -> no sound. > Audio: no sound > Starting playback... Just as an aside here, mplayer has native pulse support now (-ao pulse), though in this case I don't think it would help. The first thing I'd check would be to make sure that pulseaudio is still running. If you run "pulseaudio --check -v" from the command line it'll tell you if you currently have an instance of pulse running or not. But usually if pulse isn't running at all, you get a "Connection refused", not a "Connection terminated". I did a bit of googling on your error output and came up with this thread from an ubuntu user: https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/3735 Sounds like he just needed to install the libgstreamer-plugins-pulse0.10-0 pulse package and the libasound2-plugins package. The package names might be different for you depending on which distro you're using. Hope that helps. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/attachments/20070826/0795593f/attachment.pgp>
