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 -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
