2011/6/10 Colin Guthrie <gmane at colin.guthr.ie> > > If you do: > aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav > > (assuming that file exists which it should if you have speaker-test > installed) > > While you run the above command, (which will only stay running for a > little while so have two terminals open and be prepared to type the > other command quickly) what does the "sudo fuser -v /dev/snd/pcm*" say? > > You might need to stop firefox. > I succeeded only once to do this (I have no time to go from one terminal to the other) and Firefox was still running at the time; the result was: UTIL. PID ACC?S COMMANDE /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p: marie-noelle 7023 f...m plugin-containe marie-noelle 18217 F...m aplay So, with Firefox off, I tried with a longer .ogg file, and gets: UTIL. PID ACC?S COMMANDE /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p: marie-noelle 7023 f...m plugin-containe marie-noelle 18217 F...m aplay (with some horrid sounds) So it means the alsa configuration is 'broken'? Marie-No?lle -- Une galerie photos, un blog ... pourquoi pas ? Webmaster en herbe<http://www.webmaster-en-herbe.net/> Parcourez les C?vennes ? ma fa?on : C?vennes Plurielles<http://www.cevennes-plurielles.com> Et toutes mes autres publications ? partir de ma page d'accueil g?n?rale<http://www.marie-noelle-augendre.com> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/attachments/20110610/3864b833/attachment.htm>