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From: "Clemens Ladisch" <cladisch@fastmail.net>
Subject: Re: resetting an audio device?
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 08:47:19 +0200
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william estrada wrote:
>    I got my alsa player code to work.  Now I need to figure out how to
> reset the audio device?  I don't want to close the device, just recycle
> it.

When the device is not running (i.e., after calling snd_pcm_drop()),
call snd_pcm_hw_free() to free the configuration; then you can set a
new configuration with the snd_pcm_hw_params* functions.


HTH
Clemens