How to restart alsa?

[Paul Smith]

On 8/22/06, Paul Smith <phhs80 at gmail.com> 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
> #

In addition, here

'ainit psmith stop'

returns to the prompt but it does not stop the music playing.

Paul