I’m running fvwm 2.5.30 on a Dell E6520 with ubuntu 12.04.
Until recently, sound was working fine. In the last few days I’ve lost sound in fvwm, although I still have sound in gnome.
Testing the sound in fvwm with
strace aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Noise.wavI find
- most of the time, the command hangs at the bottom of the output fragment below
futex(0xfa2fb0, FUTEX_UNLOCK_PI_PRIVATE, 0) = 0
futex(0xfa2fe4, FUTEX_WAIT_REQUEUE_PI_PRIVATE, 5, NULL, 0xfa2fb0) = 0
futex(0xfa2fb0, FUTEX_UNLOCK_PI_PRIVATE, 0) = 0
futex(0xfa2fe0, FUTEX_WAKE_PRIVATE, 1) = 1
futex(0xfa2fe4, FUTEX_WAIT_REQUEUE_PI_PRIVATE, 7, NULL, 0xfa2fb0) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)
futex(0xfa2fe4, FUTEX_WAIT_PRIVATE, 7, NULL) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)
futex(0xfa2fb0, FUTEX_UNLOCK_PI_PRIVATE, 0) = 0
read(8, "<\4e\0a\375\342\374\200\376z\0e\1\340\1|\2u\2#\2\347\1\333\0\364\377C\1\16\4"..., 12000) = 12000
poll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN|POLLERR|POLLNVAL}], 1, -1
- occasionally it will run to the end
The command never generates the usual noise. If it runs to the end, then it kills off sound at the console level and also in gnome, but if it hangs, then I can still get sound in gnome. Logging out and logging back in restores sound to gnome.
Any advice would be most appreciated! Thanks!