[PlanetCCRMA] How do I restart Alsa without rebooting???

[Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano]

>    My system has recently gotten much worse about having Alsa come up
> running on my HDSP card on a cold boot. This is still apparently related
> to my use of a USB MidiMan 2x2. If the 2x2 is not plugged in, then Alsa
> starts up fine on the HDSP. IF the 2x2 is plugged in, then I get error
> messages about the Hammerfall not being able to allocate memory. A warm
> boot always seems to solve this problem. On the second boot the
> Hammerfall gets memory and everything is fine from then on.
> 
>    My question is, how to I do the equivalent of a warm boot without
> actually doing the reboot? I've tried 
> 
> service alsasound restart
> 
> but that doesn't seem to solve the problem. When the Hammerfall hasn't
> gotten memory I see only a stop and start OK message. When the
> Hammerfall was allocated memory I see four messages and the restart
> seems to allow Jack to run. Anyway, when the system is in a bad state
> this restart doesn't work.
> 
> (And I'm not supposed to have to reboot Linux anyway!!!) ;-)
> 
> What commands would get memory allocated and Alsa started correctly for
> both devices?

No commands :-)