getting sound back

[Craig White]

On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 11:33 -0400, Mark Haney wrote:
> Jorge Fábregas wrote:
> > On Monday 28 July 2008 09:58:56 am Mark Haney wrote:
> >> I was looking for something related to pulseaudio, but didn't see anything
> >> that stuck out as being such
> > 
> > Well, after making sure the volume is not way down ;) check if pulseaudio is 
> > running with:  
> > 
> > ps -ef | grep pulse
> > 
> > If not, start it as your regular user (not root) by typing:
> > 
> > pulseaudio -D
> > 
> > Check /var/log/messages for any errors...
> > 
> > HTH,
> > Jorge
> > 
> 
> Fortunately, my kids are savvy enough to check the sound first then 
> check the cables.  All that was good.  I wasn't expecting pulseaudio not 
> to be a service I could just restart on the fly.  But I'll check it out 
> when I get home.
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pulseaudio is run in user space and not as a system service.

Craig