How to restart alsa?

[Paul Smith]

On 8/22/06, Mark Haney <mhaney at ercbroadband.org> wrote:
> >> Strange.  Okay, have you queried rpm to see if it's installed?  What's
> >> the output of rpm -qa | grep alsa say?
> >>
> >> I don't remember exactly how FC handles it, but is alsa a kernel module
> >> or built into the kernel on your system?
> >
> > # rpm -qa | grep alsa
> > alsa-utils-1.0.11-4.rc2
> > java-1.5.0-sun-alsa-1.5.0.06-1jpp
> > alsa-lib-1.0.11-4.rc2
> > alsa-lib-devel-1.0.11-4.rc2
> > #
> >
> > Regarding your second question, I do not really know how to answer them.
> >
> Run an 'lsmod' and see if alsa is listed (or anything with 'snd' in the
> used by column).  I'm nowhere near an FC5 box with sound, as my laptop
> is Gentoo and all my FC boxes are servers, so I'm not sure what I should
> be seeing on that front.  I doubt seriously that FC's implementation of
> also would be THAT different from any other distro.

OK:

# /sbin/lsmod | grep snd
snd_hda_intel          22613  2
snd_hda_codec         141761  1 snd_hda_intel
snd_seq_dummy           8133  0
snd_seq_oss            37185  0
snd_seq_midi_event     11841  1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq                59441  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device         13005  3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss            43985  1
snd_mixer_oss          21825  2 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm                88005  3 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer              28613  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd                    59973  9
snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore              14113  3 snd
snd_page_alloc         14665  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
#

Paul