strange sound problems

[Erez D]

i just disabled pulse in /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf and everything works
great.

thanks,
erez.

On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 10:47 AM, sara fink <sara.fink at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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