Re: "xine was unable to initialize any audio drivers"

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Author: James Mcphee
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To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: "xine was unable to initialize any audio drivers"
Also possible you have something grabbing ahold of your sound device. You
may want to check what you have running and whack stuff to see if it starts
working again.

On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Andrew Farris <> wrote:

> On Wed, 2009-10-07 at 11:08 -0700, Wayne Davis wrote:
> [snip]
> > Pulseaudio is not in use on this system.
> [snip]
> > I wonder if "alsa resume" is what i'm after? Will have to wait till it
> > fails again :-(
>
> Since from this, I assume you're using ALSA instead of Pulseaudio...
> perhaps try this:
>
>    sudo /etc/init.d/alsa-utils restart

>
> On newer versions of Ubuntu (though I don't remember if this was in 8.04
> or not) the "/etc/init.d/" from above has been given an alias to make
> using it faster/more convenient/less error-prone, so on a newer ubuntu
> the command becomes:
>
>    sudo service alsa-utils restart

>
> Hope that helps!
>
>
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