<div class="gmail_quote">2011/6/10 Colin Guthrie <<a href="mailto:gmane@colin.guthr.ie">gmane@colin.guthr.ie</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> If you do: aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav (assuming that file exists which it should if you have speaker-test installed) While you run the above command, (which will only stay running for a little while so have two terminals open and be prepared to type the other command quickly) what does the "sudo fuser -v /dev/snd/pcm*" say? You might need to stop firefox. </blockquote><div> I succeeded only once to do this (I have no time to go from one terminal to the other) and Firefox was still running at the time; the result was: UTIL. PID ACCÈS COMMANDE /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p: marie-noelle 7023 f...m plugin-containe marie-noelle 18217 F...m aplay So, with Firefox off, I tried with a longer .ogg file, and gets: UTIL. PID ACCÈS COMMANDE /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p: marie-noelle 7023 f...m plugin-containe marie-noelle 18217 F...m aplay (with some horrid sounds) So it means the alsa configuration is 'broken'? Marie-Noëlle </div></div> -- Une galerie photos, un blog ... pourquoi pas ? <a href="http://www.webmaster-en-herbe.net/" target="_blank">Webmaster en herbe</a> Parcourez les Cévennes à ma façon : <a href="http://www.cevennes-plurielles.com" target="_blank">Cévennes Plurielles</a> Et toutes mes autres publications à partir de ma <a href="http://www.marie-noelle-augendre.com" target="_blank">page d'accueil générale</a>