On 8/23/06, Tony Nelson <tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 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? No. "ainit tonyn stop" removes the lock files when I run it as root, and doesn't remove them when run as tonyn, but I can still play sounds after running it either way. >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) ... I have not used PlanetCCRMA kernels. They appear to do it differently from Fedora.
Any progress regarding how to restart alsa on Fedora Core? Paul
