At 8:10 PM +0200 8/5/06, Nigel Henry wrote:
On Saturday 05 August 2006 18:55, Tony Nelson wrote:
> At 6:23 PM +0200 8/5/06, Nigel Henry wrote:
> >On Saturday 05 August 2006 17:46, Paul Smith wrote:
> >> On 8/5/06, Nigel Henry <cave.dnb(a)tiscali.fr> wrote:
> >> > > How can one restart alsa?
> >> > >
> >> > > I have already tried:
> >> > >
> >> > > # /sbin/service alsasound restart
> >> > > alsasound: unrecognized service
> >> > > #
> >> >
> >> > Hi Paul. I've always used the following on FC, su'ed to root.
> >> >
> >> > /etc/rc.d/init.d/alsasound stop
> >> > /etc/rc.d/init.d/alsasound start
> >> > /etc/rc.d/init.d/alsasound restart
> >>
> >> Thanks, Nigel, but I get
> >>
> >> # /etc/rc.d/init.d/alsasound restart
> >> bash: /etc/rc.d/init.d/alsasound: No such file or directory
> >> #
> >>
> >> Paul
> >
> >That's odd. I've just been into FC5, presuming that's what your
using, to
> >check it out, and alsasound is there. I am using a kernel from
> > planetccrma, along with Alsa stuff, and sound apps from them, but Alsa,
> > when I installed FC5 worked just fine OOTB with my Ensoniq card.
>
> FWIW, I'm also using FC5, but "locate alsasound" finds no files and
"yum
> provides alsasound" with the usual repos finds no matches. There are no
> modules with alsa in the name. Yet sound works here, VIA chipset, AC'97
> audio.
Hi Tony. Thats interesting. I've just booted up the other FC5
which doesn't
have the planetccrma kernel, and the associated kernel-modules-alsa package
on it, and your quite right. No /etc/rc.d/init.d/alsasound. There is
an /etc/alsa directory with and alsa.conf file, a cards directory, and a PCM
directory, with another few bits, and cat /proc/asound/cards,
cat /proc/asound/version, and /sbin/lsmod show that Alsa is installed ok.
It must be that installing the planetccrma kernel, and associated
kernel-modules-alsa package, that has created the alsasound file.
So the question remains. How, if you are using Fedora kernels, do you start
and stop Alsa?
Is ainit the thing? (man 8 ainit, from apropos alsa)
I must admit that I only had a quick look in the non planetccrma FC5,
and
perhaps there is a script somewhere that allows you to stop and start Alsa.
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