Re: Is a complete Alsa restart possibly without rebooting?

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

At Fri, 8 Aug 2003 21:25:02 +0100,
Edward Wildgoose wrote:
> 
> > Edward Wildgoose wrote:
> > > Actually perhaps this is the problem that I am seeing as well on a
> P4P800
> > > board with a hyperthreaded P4.  I have a dual P3 which starts and stops
> alsa
> > > fine, at least up to about alsa 0.9.4.  However, with this board if I do
> an
> > > alsa restart, modules reload, but no sound until reboot, and this
> happens
> > > with various builds at least as far back as 0.9.2
> > >
> > > The main soundcard is an RME 96/8 PAD, but I also have an onboard intel
> > > compatible thing which seems to suffer the same issues.
> >
> > My P4P800 with a HT P4 runs just fine after reloading the ALSA
> > drivers, with onboard and other soundcards. Maybe you didn't run
> > "alsactl restore"?
> 
> OK, assume that I didn't (although in my case it is part of the script, so
> it probably is getting called).  Why would that cause the /dev/dsp OSS
> entries not to be created?

i guess devfs configuration.
the entries for OSS devices are likely missing.


Takashi


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