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Many sound problems on Intrepid ibex

I upgrade two ibex last night and found few sound problems below

First, on video file(mpg,avi ..), when right click and choose >open with >mplayer. will bring up error " [AO_ALSA] Unable to find simple control 'PCM',0 ".
I'm not sure what it is, maybe the config just is not right but I fix this by right click on movie window-> preference then on audio tab, select 'Enable Software Mixer'. [or you can do this by change 'softvol = "no"' to 'softvol = "yes"' in $HOME/.mplayer/gui.conf]

Another sound issue is flash player on web[like youtube] not play sound. /var/log/message said
pnix@pnix-a7n:_NHDT392$ tail -f /var/log/messages
...
Nov  2 00:33:14 pnix-a7n -- MARK --
Nov  2 00:40:51 pnix-a7n pulseaudio[23941]: sink-input.c: Failed to create sink input: too many inputs per sink.
Nov  2 00:40:51 pnix-a7n last message repeated 31 times
Nov  2 00:40:51 pnix-a7n pulseaudio[23941]: protocol-native.c: Warning! Too many connections (64), dropping incoming connection.
and after run flash, no sound from other application too. I saw bug report for this issue on lunchpad here but no solution for me. I have to kill and restart pulseaudio like this to get sound back.
pnix@pnix-a7n:~$ pulseaudio -k
W: ltdl-bind-now.c: Failed to find original dlopen loader.
pnix@pnix-a7n:~$ ps aux|grep pulseaudio
pnix      2510  0.0  0.0   3236   796 pts/0    S+   04:14   0:00 grep pulseaudio
pnix@pnix-a7n:~$ pulseaudio -D
W: ltdl-bind-now.c: Failed to find original dlopen loader.
pnix@pnix-a7n:~$ ps aux|grep pulseaudio
pnix      2513  3.0  0.3  28952  3952 ?        Ssl  04:14   0:00 pulseaudio -D
pnix      2516  0.0  0.2   7528  2516 ?        S    04:14   0:00 /usr/lib/pulseaudio/pulse/gconf-helper
pnix      2518  0.0  0.0   3236   792 pts/0    S+   04:14   0:00 grep pulseaudio
pnix@pnix-a7n:~$
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Anonymous said…
just try the following
$ pidof pulseaudio | xargs kill -9

I had same problems in 8.04
November 4, 2008 at 12:12 AM
Anonymous said…
no sound from other application too. I saw bug report for this issue on lunchpad here but no solution for me. I have to kill and restart pulseaudio like this to get sound back.
November 27, 2008 at 2:11 AM
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