Re: xpdf blocks sounds

Nishita Desai wrote:

Hello,

I have been having this problem lately: I cannot get any sound to play
whenever I have some pdfs open.
Here's the output of 'lsof |grep snd'

nishita@ff9:~$ lsof |grep snd
lsof: WARNING: can't stat() ext3 file system /dev/.static/dev Output
information may be incomplete.
mixer_app 2960 nishita 38u CHR 116,0 5411 /dev/snd/controlC0
xpdf.bin 12356 nishita 79r CHR 116,33 5261 /dev/snd/timer
xpdf.bin 12356 nishita 80u CHR 116,16 5391 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p
xpdf.bin 12356 nishita 81u CHR 116,0 5411 /dev/snd/controlC0
xpdf.bin 22504 nishita 79r CHR 116,33 5261 /dev/snd/timer
xpdf.bin 22504 nishita 80u CHR 116,16 5391 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p
xpdf.bin 22504 nishita 81u CHR 116,0 5411 /dev/snd/controlC0


Weird! For me xpdf does not seem to use the /dev/snd. I opened a pdf file
using xpdf. After that

sudo lsof | grep snd | grep xpdf

returned nothing. It could be something specific to your configuration. What
is your sound card? Are you using ALSA or something else?

I am using Debian Etch, xpdf 3.0.1, ALSA for soundcard configuration.

hth
raju
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