[linux-audio-user] My new mouse done ate my alsa sound

[Lee Revell]

On 3/11/07, M P Smoak <smoak at mis.net> wrote:
> Last week, the mouse (acting odd for a long time) got too bad to
> use. So I take my friends advice and go to a usb mouse.  Halt the
> machine; pull the ps2 mouse and plug in the use mouse.
>
> Boot; all seems to work well;  all works except SOUND!  Except my
> old standby, Realplayer.  Alsaplayer doesn't play.  Soundfont loads
> for my SBlive, alsa patch bay appears to work, QA mix looks as
> usual, ....

Does your sound come back when you switch back to the PS2 mouse?

What sound hardware?

What error message do you get from aplay file.wav?

Lee