strange sound problems

[sara fink]

you are welcome. ;-)

On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Erez D <erez0001 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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