After running for an hour or so, my sound stopped. I guess that s**t happens, and there are so many problems with alsa-base these days (a revision every couple of days, it seems) that I'm not really trying to solve them any more. I'll settle for something less at the moment: a way to restart the sound system without having to reboot. How can I do that? (/etc/init.d/pulseaudio restart doesn't seem to do it.)
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Re: How to restart pulseaudio (or sound)
pulse is run as the user, so you should juyst have to issue
killall pulseaudio
it should automatically restart either immediately or as soon as something needs it
I do have a question , if I may. I don't quite follow this:
as the latest maverick package for alsa-base, linux-sound-base are from September. Are you possibly using some PPA that may be producing these updates?there are so many problems with alsa-base these days (a revision every couple of days, it seems) -
Using a PPA
Yes, I'm using this PPA:
http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-audio-dev/ppa/ubuntu
I had the possibly mistaken impression that since it's at launchpad, it's at least semi-official.Comment
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Re: How to restart pulseaudio (or sound)
Nope, at least not necessarily.
The vast majority of PPA's are user-created, Launchpad just provides us with the tools to create these. While most are fine, you kinda have to know who's making the packages --and why they are packaged.
from the ppa you use:
Pretty much sums it upThis PPA will be used to provide testing versions of packages for supported Ubuntu releases.
Now, Kubuntu itself uses PPA's for it's updates; this is due to Ubuntu's policy on how handles updated versions - or rather the fact that between releases, no new versions of software are released in most cases. - only fixed versions of existing packages.
This is slowly changing, howerer. We now always get the latest firefox version, no matter which supported release we use. Kubuntu is even discussing with Ubuntu on allowing some new KDE versions to make it into the official update reposComment
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Why I used a PPA
I used the PPA because I wasn't getting the sound on my particular hardware, and someone suggested picking up the PPA.Comment
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