On Tuesday 22 August 2006 23:46, Lee Revell wrote: > 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.
Personally I'm not bothered about shutting down Alsa anymore, as it's working just fine, but seeing these queries from some FC5 users I thought I'd put the question all the same. > > Probably the FC5 developers just decided to let udev/hotplug handle it > like every other subsystem. Well thanks Lee. That's answered that. Nigel > 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
