<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Hi; Unfortunately, that command didn't work for me. I sure do thank you for your help as always!!! Mark NoOp wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:gkjeis$oq6$1@ger.gmane.org" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On 01/12/2009 07:17 PM, mark Pyles wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Hi everyone: I am running Ubuntu 8.04 (Gnome desktop) on a Dell Inspiron 1525 laptop. I have a problem where my VLC media player doesn't always have sound when I go to use it. For example, if I have been using my computer for a while and open VLC to watch a DVD I get no sound. Not until I reboot my computer and start VLC after my computer reboots that the sound works fine. Any ideas as to the cause of that? Thanks. Mark </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Instead of rebooting, try this from a terminal next time you lose sound: sudo /etc/init.d/alsa-utils reset </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>