On Fri, 02.11.07 17:23, Alex Malinovich (demonbane at the-love-shack.net) wrote: > I've been playing with pasuspender for a few of my broken alsa-apps that > demand to talk directly to the hardware with pretty good results. > Unfortunately, it seems to keep pulse suspended indefinitely. After > closing the application that I used it on I can't play any pulse sounds. > paplay or aplay using a pulse device both just hang. Using aplay with -D > plughw works just fine though. Yet I don't have a running pasuspender > showing up in my ps output, and I don't have any alsa apps running > either. Hmm, this looks as if some app is still keeping the PCM devices open after terminating. Maybe some subprocess has been spawned off that keeps the device open? > Doing a 'pactl suspend-sink 0' seems to release it again, but this seems > rather like a bug to me. Try running "pulseaudio -vv". It should be a little bit more verbose about the reason why the resuming of the audio device didn't work for pasuspender. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net ICQ# 11060553 http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4