strange sound problems

[sara fink]

you use alsa?

2009/5/22 Erez D <erez0001 at gmail.com>

> well, after upgrading my htpc to jounty, my sound stopped working:
>
> no, i have a strange problem:
>
> under user1, aplay -Ddefault a.wav works, as well as aplay -Dhw:0,0 a.wav
> under user2, aplay -Ddefault a.wav doesn't work, but aplay -Dhw:0,0 a.wav
> does
>
> neither user1 nor user2 have an ~/.asoundrc file ...
>
> now, if i put ~user2/.asoundrc file containing:
> ctl.!default {
>         type hw
>         card 0
> }
>
>
> pcm.!default {
>         type hw
>         card 0
> }
>
> then for user2, both -Dhw:0,0 and -Ddefault works, however:
> when i launch mythfrontend as user 2, i get no sound, with:
> NVP: Disabling Audio, reason is: snd_pcm_open(default): Device or resource
> busy
>
> but if i restart X & mythfrontend, then i have sound.
>
> the problem is consistant.
>
>
> any idea anyone ?
>
>
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