How to restart alsa?

[Paul Smith]

On 8/23/06, Tony Nelson <tonynelson at georgeanelson.com> wrote:
> >> Fedora appears to use ainit to start alsa (man 8 ainit, via "apropos
> >> alsa").
> >
> >Hi Tony. This thread was running a while back, and I think you mentioned
> >"ainit" then.  I tried it on FC5, (Not the one with planetccrma on it).  I
> >had some music playing using Mhwaveedit, which uses Alsa, and did an
> >"ainit stop" which returned me to the prompt, indicating it had stopped, but
> >the music was still playing.
> >
> >The man page for ainit indicates that it's to do with dmix, and dnoop, and
> >admittadly both used by Alsa.
> >
> >Have YOU managed to stop Alsa using ainit?
>
> No.
>
> "ainit tonyn stop" removes the lock files when I run it as root, and
> doesn't remove them when run as tonyn, but I can still play sounds after
> running it either way.
>
>
> >I don't if you've used the planetccrma stuff, which puts the alsasound
> >shellscript in /etc/rc.d/init.d, but this is what I get on FC2 for a stop,
> >and then start of Alsa using it (no music playing)
>  ...
>
> I have not used PlanetCCRMA kernels.  They appear to do it differently from
> Fedora.

Any progress regarding how to restart alsa on Fedora Core?

Paul