On Tue, 2006-08-22 at 23:39 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: > Since FC1 I've installed planetccrma stuff, and have an alsasound shellscript > for stopping and starting Alsa in /etc/rc.d/init.d. > > there have been queries on the Fedora list as how to stop and start Alsa on > FC5. I have 2 FC5 installs, one with planetccrma stuff installed, and has the > alsasound shellscript, the other, non planetccrma install doesn't have the > alsasound shellscript, and there does not seem to be a way to shutdown Alsa > on this. > > Someone on the Fedora list suggested "ainit", but that seems to be just > dealing with dmix, and dsnoop, and stopping ainit has no effect. An audio > app using Alsa just keeps on playing. > > I know Lee's using Ubuntu, and as it's basically Debian, you can stop and > start Alsa in it, but is anyone here using FC5, and may have some answer as > to why, on the face of it, there appears no way of stopping Alsa, and > restarting it? > > On bootup on my FC + planetccrma installs I get text showing the Alsa > components being loaded, but the non planetccrma FC5 shows nothing to do with > Alsa, and yet alsa works ok. > > This is only an academic question, but it would be nice to find and answer to > it. > > Nigel. > > Sound card: Ensoniq (ens1371)
Why do you need the ability to "shut down ALSA"? I always thought it was silly that distros provide a custom script for this but not for other subsystems. Probably the FC5 developers just decided to let udev/hotplug handle it like every other subsystem. Lee ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
