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_
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
