Re: module use by what?
From: Joost van der Waa (Joost.vander.waa_at_whipethishccnet.nl)
Date: 05/08/05
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Date: Sun, 08 May 2005 10:23:30 +0200
houghi wrote:
> Jason F. wrote:
>
>>This happens randomly about once a month, so what I end up doing is
>>shutting down and restarting the suspect application(s), then doing
>>'/init.d/alsasound restart' to see if the error went away (and then use
>>mplayer to test if OSS sound is working again (I use the OSS driver
>>instead of ALSA in mplayer because ALSA is always out of sync with the
>>video for some reason)).
>
>
> The only thing I can do is go to init 1 and then do a hard reboot.
>
>
>>Some of my culprit apps have been games (like ET), firefox, thunderbird
>>(when audio email notification was on), and even gkrellm.
>
>
> Firfox has been a suspect as well, as has gkrellm, because those are
> programs that run all the time. However they should not produce any
> sound standard.
>
> I also suspected wmbiff (that looks after my mailboxes) and also there
> the sound is off. I even run gmemusage and see no programs that suddenly
> start up when the block happens.
>
> I will try the alsa restart when it happens again. The problem is that I
> then do not have very much time befor my PC completely freezes. :-(
There are some other programs (like power management) that can use the
sound system too. It is not very likely that often used programs are the
culprit, bevause in that case you would come across this problem more
often. You have to search for those programs that do run, but are not
really doing much.
Success,
Joost
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