Audio stops working

Ofir Klinger klinger.ofir at gmail.com
Thu Dec 24 14:52:30 GMT 2009


I found out that the problem occurs sometimes after playing flash (like in
youtube).

What can cause Flash to mass out the sound (that a login-logout can
resolve)?

Any ideas?

On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 10:07 AM, Ofir Klinger <klinger.ofir at gmail.com>wrote:

> The bug report of Kwan Chan doesn't match my symptoms since I can ear sound
> from two apps running simultaneously (i.e, smplayer and amarok).
>
> The solution of Ike Garcia didn't work for me.
>
> I will try Go Eller's solution.
>
> I done some tests which revealed that:
>
>    1. Playing smplayer + amarok together or one before the other did *not*cause the problem.
>    2. Playing flash + amarok did *not* cause the problem too.
>
> I will try to monitor the behavior of the problem in the following days.
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 8:33 AM, john e <john.godzero at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I had something similar happen, Skype would also kill audio.
>> Not sure how i semi-fixed it, but i ripped out anything pulse-related
>> (including some gnome apps i like). Currently audio will "pop"/"jerk"
>> if more than 1 source is trying to use sound sometimes.
>> My working theory are the different audio backends are competing, but
>> only a theory.
>>
>>
>> -john
>>
>>
>> On 12/21/09, Kwan Chan <chanyunkwan0217 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Here's the bug report link.
>> >
>> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/447844
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 2:44 AM, Ofir Klinger <klinger.ofir at gmail.com
>> >wrote:
>> >
>> >> I don't sure it is a crash since logout and than login solves the
>> problem.
>> >>
>> >> @Kwan Chan: can you post a link to the bug report?
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 8:15 PM, Go Eller <goerpr at yahoo.de> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> You may be right, however it fixed *my* crashing sound system ...
>> >>>
>> >>> Peter
>> >>>
>> >>> > @Peter That can only fix the poping sound.
>> >>> >
>> >>> > On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 10:02 PM, Go Eller <goerpr at yahoo.de
>> >>> > <mailto:goerpr at yahoo.de>> wrote:
>> >>> >
>> >>> >     I had the same problem (kubuntu 9.10 : kernel 2.6.31-16) ...
>> >>> >
>> >>> >     after editing one line (in my case it was the last line) in
>> >>> >     /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf
>> >>> >     from
>> >>> >     options snd-hda-intel power_save=10 power_save_controller=N
>> >>> >     to
>> >>> >     options snd-hda-intel power_save=10 power_save_controller=Y
>> >>> >     the problem seems to be gone.
>> >>> >
>> >>> >     Peter
>> >>> >
>> >>> >     > I think (but I really don't sure!) that sometimes after
>> playing
>> >>> >     videos
>> >>> >     > in flash (youtube etc) sound stops working _*globally*_.
>> >>> >     >
>> >>> >     > I mean, no sound at all, for example, smplayer, amarok,
>> kaffine,
>> >>> >     vlc.
>> >>> >     >
>> >>> >     > However, only KDE apps report the problem from the screenshot
>> I
>> >>> >     > attached. Others just play with no sound.
>> >>> >     >
>> >>> >     > Any ideas?
>> >>> >     >
>> >>> >     > On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Jonas Norlander
>> >>> >     <jonorland at gmail.com <mailto:jonorland at gmail.com>
>> >>> >     > <mailto:jonorland at gmail.com <mailto:jonorland at gmail.com>>>
>> wrote:
>> >>> >     >
>> >>> >     >     2009/12/20 Ofir Klinger <klinger.ofir at gmail.com
>> >>> >     <mailto:klinger.ofir at gmail.com>
>> >>> >     >     <mailto:klinger.ofir at gmail.com
>> >>> >     <mailto:klinger.ofir at gmail.com>>>:
>> >>> >     >     > Hello,
>> >>> >     >     >
>> >>> >     >     > Recently I encountered the following message several
>> times:
>> >>> >     >     > http://www.violetech.org/screenshot2.png
>> >>> >     >     > I get the same problem on 2 computers.
>> >>> >     >     >
>> >>> >     >     > The only way of solving it seems to logout and login,
>> >>> however,
>> >>> >     >     sometimes
>> >>> >     >     > only reboot works.
>> >>> >     >     >
>> >>> >     >     > Both computers running kubuntu karmic with KDE 4.3 and
>> >>> latest
>> >>> >     >     updates.
>> >>> >     >     >
>> >>> >     >     > I cannot figure out what is the source of the problem,
>> and
>> >>> >     >     therefore I don't
>> >>> >     >     > know in which package to file a bug or what to attach to
>> >>> > it.
>> >>> >     >     >
>> >>> >     >     > Any help will be appreciated!
>> >>> >     >     >
>> >>> >     >     > Ofir
>> >>> >     >
>> >>> >     >     I got a lot of this before in Kubuntu 9.04 and Amarok
>> 2.1.x
>> >>> but
>> >>> >     >     somewhere after upgrading to Kubuntu 9.10 and Amarok 2.2.x
>> >>> >     it when
>> >>> >     >     away. It was always when using Amarok, no other sound or
>> >>> > video
>> >>> >     >     application would cause it.
>> >>> >     >
>> >>> >     >     What application are u using when it happen and what
>> version
>> >>> of
>> >>> >     >     Kubuntu do you have?
>> >>> >     >     I wouldn't install Pulsaudio in Kubuntu as it probably
>> will
>> >>> >     cause more
>> >>> >     >     problem then it will fix.
>> >>> >     >
>> >>> >     >     / Jonas
>> >>> >     >
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