On Tuesday 22 August 2006 19:16, Tony Nelson wrote: > At 2:55 PM +0200 8/22/06, Nigel Henry wrote: > >On Tuesday 22 August 2006 13:35, Paul Smith wrote: > >> On 8/7/06, Janina Sajka <janina@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > > > You need a copy of the alsasound script from the CCRMA packages. > >> > > > Just plop it into /etc/init.d and you'll be good to go with the > >> > > > traditional: > >> > > > > >> > > > service alsasound start/restart/stop > >> > > > >> > > I'll try that. I have one FC5 install with planetccrma, and the > >> > > other FC5 without. I'll borrow the alsasound script from the > >> > > planetccrma one. > >> > >> I have searched for the alsasound script but I cannot find it. Any help? > >> > >> Thanks in advance, > >> > >> Paul > > > >If this is a straight FC5 install, without installing the planetccrma > > kernel, and associated kernel-modules-alsa, there isn't an alsasound > > script. > > > >Alsa is obviously being started at bootup on FC5 in some different way, > > but I havn't discovered how yet. > > ... > > 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? 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) [djmons@localhost djmons]$ su Password: [root@localhost djmons]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/alsasound stop Shutting down sound driver [ OK ] [root@localhost djmons]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/alsasound start Starting sound driver snd-ens1371 [ OK ] Starting sound driver snd-ens1371 [ OK ] Starting sequencer [ OK ] Starting sequencer driver snd-seq-midi [ OK ] Restoring sound driver settings [ OK ] [root@localhost djmons]# And if I have music playing using Alsa, running alsasound stop, closes the sound app, and shuts down Alsa as above. Back to ainit. Dmix, as far as I understand, allows you to use more than one audio app (both using Alsa) at the same time, on a soundcard that is not capable of multiple audio streams (no hardware mixing), which includes most cards, like the Ensoniq one on this machine. My other machine which has an Audigy2 soundblaster, does have hardware mixing, so dmix doesn't come into the equation with that card. I will experiment on the non planetccrma FC5. I'll try running 2 Alsa using audio apps. Then I'll run ainit stop, and see if one of the apps stops working. If ainit only controls dmix, and dsnoop (the capture part), and as far as I know, dmix only comes into play when you want to play more than one Alsa using app at the same time, then, an "ainit stop" should either result in losing one of the apps, or breaking the machine. I'm also going to post this query to the alsa-user list, as it's a bit puzzling. Hopefully someone there might be using FC5. That's enough rambling on. Nigel.
