Weird problems on FC5; sound and bluetooth
James Pifer
jep at obrien-pifer.com
Wed Nov 1 17:23:02 UTC 2006
About a week ago I started having some sound problems on my laptop. They
started with VMware complaining that it couldn't open device /dev/dsp.
Now other applications are also complaining or failing. For example, if
I log off and log back on, gaim will have sound for a little while. Then
it seems like something grabs the sound and won't release it.
The only thing I can remember changing a little while ago was installing
flash in firefox... Don't see any problems in /var/log/messages either.
I've also had some strange problems with my bluetooth mouse, especially
the last few days. It had been working fine for a long time but suddenly
it's acting weird too. If I reboot, hidd will pick it up, but for no
apparent reason it will stop working, and I can't get hidd to pick it
back up again. It seems to definitely happen when I start vmware player,
but I think it happens at other times too. I'm now running the latest
vmware player and latest vmware-any.
I ran yum update and updated everything hoping it would somehow
magically fix things, but it didn't.
Anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks,
James
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