How to restart alsa?

[Tony Nelson]

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 at 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.
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