why would i lose sound entirely every so often?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Sun, 12 Jul 2009, Tim wrote:

> On Sun, 2009-07-12 at 06:04 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >   another data point -- i did a "killall firefox", started another
> > instance which promptly restored all my tabs including the youtube one
> > and, voila, i have sound.  i'm still confused.
>
> Flash using the sound system directly, rather than sharing it
> through pulseaudio, and hogging it all to itself?
>
> I've experienced the same sort of thing, occasionally.

  is there a test that would identify that as the culprit?

rday
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