[PlanetCCRMA] Restarting ALSA on FC6

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On Sat, 2006-12-23 at 17:46 +0000, Nathaniel Virgo wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> For ages now I've had a problem with my laptop's soundcard whereby I
> have to restart alsa before I can hear anything.  I've just upgraded
> to Fedora Core 6 but `/sbin/service alsasound restart' doesn't work
> anymore (it says "alsasound: unrecognized service").  Is there another
> way to restart sound on FC6?

Hmmm, I guess removing all the snd kernel modules :-)

I have not yet packaged alsasound (which I used to package in the
"alsa-driver" rpm) - that script is a long time holdover from when alsa
was not part of redhat/fedora. Fedora loads the kernel modules on
startup depending on the hardware that is connected and does not come
with a script to stop/start/restart audio. 

I'm attaching the script I have in my machine (fc4), it should work if
you put it in /etc/rc.d/init.d/ (or anywhere else if you just want to
execute it "by hand"). 

-- Fernando

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