sound stopped working after a few flash videos [solved]

[klerfayt]

I was watching a playlist @ youtube.com and then 7th clip started playing I noticed that audio is gone. This is now second time that it's happening, I'm not sure what is the exact cause - my guess is that mplayer somehow does it then flash content is played in firefox.
So anyway this time I got the audio back again without logging out thanks to the following commands:

fuser -v /dev/snd/*

-- it will show what processes use alsa ... or something like that

sudo alsa force-reload

-- will reload alsa and kill any application accessing it; use with caution.

Maybe someone finds this workaround useful...

[dibl]

Re: sound stopped working after a few flash videos [solved]

Interesting -- thanks klerfayt!

I've been having some audio weirdness on my 8.10 system -- nothing serious (or shocking on a pre-release version), but this might help when it comes up "brain dead" and finds no sound device on my system. Definitely easier than rebooting!