Quoting Bart Schaefer <barton.schaefer at gmail.com>: > As I mentioned on a thread about flash-plugin a few days ago, I'm > having trouble with my sound device getting "stuck" and thereby > causing problems for anything that accesses it, like video playback. > > Rebooting the machine "fixes" it for a while, but it's unpredictable > for how long -- sometimes months go by without it recurring, sometimes > it happens every couple of days. Right now I'm in one of the latter > phases. > > Any suggestions on how I could reset the controller without having to > reboot? (Or suggestions for where else I might ask this question?) > Below is output from "lshw" for the audio controller, and "lsmod" for > the sound modules that are loaded. This is CentOS 4.7. <snip> I have similar problems in CentOS 5. I disable and enable the flash plugin in firefox, and it seems to be corrected. My problem may be slightly different, but this is how I 'fix' the problem.