Re: [Alsa-user] how to purge old ALSA controls without reboot

2018-05-14 Thread frederik
Thank you Clemens. That worked for me. > Unload the sound driver (rmmod), then remove the entries from asound.state, > then re-load the driver (modprobe). I wasn't sure which driver you meant, for me it ended up being something like this: sudo rmmod snd_hda_intel snd_usb_audio snd_hda_codec_

Re: [Alsa-user] how to purge old ALSA controls without reboot

2018-05-14 Thread Clemens Ladisch via Alsa-user
frede...@ofb.net wrote: > I'm trying to figure out how to delete unused volume controls which > had appeared in previous versions of my .asoundrc. > > Can this be done without rebooting my computer? Unload the sound driver (rmmod), then remove the entries from asound.state, then re-load the driver

[Alsa-user] how to purge old ALSA controls without reboot

2018-05-14 Thread frederik
Hello ALSA users, I'm trying to figure out how to delete unused volume controls which had appeared in previous versions of my .asoundrc. Can this be done without rebooting my computer? When I google the problem I only find a solution requiring rebooting: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?i