[nmglug] sound

[Gary Sandine]

On Sun, 2006-08-13 at 22:40 -0600, BrianO'Keefe wrote:
> Gary Sandine wrote: 
> > On Sun, 2006-08-13 at 21:02 -0600, Andres Paglayan wrote:
> >   
> > > I knew it, but I was betting it would ring "someone" a bell, ;-0
> > > 
> > > On Aug 13, 2006, at 2:43 PM, BrianO'Keefe wrote:
> > > 
> > >     
> > > > Thanks for the input but "something" "somewhere" are a bit too  
> > > > vague for my small mind.
> > > >       
> > 
> > One way... if your sound driver is snd_powermac (look at lsmod output),
> > make a file /etc/modprobe.d/local and put this line in it:
> > 
> > options snd_powermac option=value
> > 
> > You'll have to find out what "option" and "value" should be for your
> > sound driver.
> > 
> > Does restarting the sound server manually actually make sound start
> > working again?  If so, which sound server?
> >   
> That was my original question. How do I restart the sound server
> manually?

Are you using a sound server?  Possibly not...  KDE or GNOME or other?
Try this:

ps ax| grep artsd
ps ax| grep esd

If you don't see a running process artsd or esd, then you're (probably)
not using a sound server.  Maybe unloading and reloading the sound
driver will help in that case:

modprobe -r [your sound driver]
modprobe [your sound driver]