Linux and Sound

[Ben Scott]

On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 9:39 AM, Ted Roche <tedroche at tedroche.com> wrote:
>  I had something similar, with my Fedora 8 system. After a
>  suspend-and-resume cycle, sound would no longer play. ...
>  which essential says to toggle from terminal to X session "a couple of
>  times" and sound will return.

  That is almost certainly due to ConsoleKit, an incredibly
mis-engineered piece of software that was introduced to replace
pam_console.  pam_console was a compact PAM module, a few hundred KB,
which only ran during PAM events, and handled setting permissions for
things like sound devices, so that a console login implicitly granted
the ability to use them.  pam_console didn't properly support multiple
console logins at once, so "they" decided to replace it with
ConsoleKit.  ConsoleKit is a daemon, consumes megabytes of RAM,  runs
all the time, and doesn't properly support multiple console logins at
once.

-- Ben