[nmglug] sound

[Brian O'Keefe]

Thanks again Gary but if you see my last post you will notice that I 
now have much larger fish to fry! some process devoured all my disk 
space on my Ubuntu partition and I am now in OS X!
On Aug 13, 2006, at 11:12 PM, Gary Sandine wrote:

> 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]
>
>
>
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