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A few shutdowns/restarts later, it spontaneously started working again.

Stupid computers.
david wrote:

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> Yesterday it worked - could read and play MIDI through my keyboard, or

> fluidsynth, and play regular audio stuff.

>

> Today, when I started up the system, KDE tells me:

>

>> Sound server informational message:

>> Error while initializing the sound driver:

>> device: default can't be opened for playback (No such file or directory)

>> The sound server will continue, using the null output device.

>

> I use ALSA and the system is usually set for Autodetect, but get the

> same results if I select ALSA. I should have known that nothing really

> works "out of the box" with Linux ;-) What the hey happened and how can

> I fix it?

>

> Running Debian testing. Did not update anything between the time it

> worked and now.

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David

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