On Saturday 17 July 2010 18:13:51 Samuel Penn wrote:
> On Friday 16 July 2010 21:48:40 Tim wrote:
> > Short of rebooting my PC how can I restart the sound system on my PC?
> >
> > If I try to run Amarok I get the following error
> >
> > "xine was unable to initialize any audio drivers"
>
> Is there an application running which has grabbed the sound device?
> I sometimes find there's an nspluginwrapper half running that needs
> killing.
>
> If you run alsa, you should be able to restart it with:
> /etc/init.d/alsasound restart
>
> At least, that works on Gentoo.
>
>
> My computer went down in a power cut on Thursday, and I've spent most
> of today rebuilding kernels and sound drivers trying to get sound
> working again after the reboot. Finally tracked it down to needing to
> switch the speakers back on... (so take any advice I can give about
> sound with a pinch of salt!).
Cheer Sam, I should of posted to say I resolved it, I used
# alsa force-reload
That will also kill kmix (assuming you are running kde) which you have to
restart
Tim
