[nmglug] sound

[Gary Sandine]

On Sun, 2006-08-13 at 13:20 -0600, BrianO'Keefe wrote:
> Gary Sandine wrote: 
> > On Sun, 2006-08-13 at 12:45 -0600, I wrote:
> >   
> > > On Sun, 2006-08-13 at 11:31 -0600, BrianO'Keefe wrote:
> > >     
> > > > Gary Sandine wrote: 
> > > >       
> > > > > On Sun, 2006-08-13 at 10:51 -0600, BrianO'Keefe wrote:  
> > > > >         
> > > > > > I'm running DapperLTS, dual boot w/ OS X, and am having sound issues. 
> > > > > > When my computer suspends and then I wake it the sound becomes garbled. 
> > > > > > Is there a way to restart the sound server without logging out and in or 
> > > > > > restarting the computer?  
> > > > > >           
> > > > > Most suspend methods have a configuration file in which one provide a
> > > > > list of services to stop before suspend and to start after resume.  If
> > > > > that's the case for whatever method you are using, put artsd or esd or
> > > > > whatever in the list.  Maybe that will work?
> > > > >   
> > > > >         
> > > > Where would I find the configuration file? I just use the suspend icon
> > > > in Ubuntu so I don't know which method it uses.
> > > >       
> > > Try this in /etc/default/acpi-support:
> > > 
> > > # Add services to this list to stop them before suspend and restart
> > > # them in the resume process.
> > > STOP_SERVICES=""
> > >     
> > 
> > Oh... if you're using a powerpc Mac, that file won't exist.
> > Try /etc/default/pmi or pmu (something like that).
> >   
> Thanks Gary. Here're the contents of /etc/default/pmi. Please
> illustrate your addition a bit. Are you saying to add STOP_SERVICES=""
> to the file like:
> 
> # The directory for blacklisting modules
> BLACKLISTDIR="/var/lib/pmi/blacklist"
> 
> # The directory for adding services to be stopped
> STOPDIR="/var/lib/pmi/stop"
> 
> STOP_SERVICES=""

No, it looks like you can (some way that I don't know) specify services
to stop in the directory /var/lib/pmi/stop.  You'll have to find some
documentation about how to do that.  Hopefully it will work for you. :)