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! -- Andrew _____________________________ Registered Linux User: 473690 Registered Ubuntu User: 22747 --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss