jack and sound restarting

[sandie]

john wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> I think I already brought this up before (thanks for your patience), but
> found no real solution to the problem: 
>
> whenever jack freezes or stops running unexpectedly, after killing it or
> restarting it, it WONT work any more. I have been forced to restart the
> PC every time and as you might guess, it is a real problem!
>  
> So my question is: how can I completely kill and restart the whole sound
> system without restarting the matchine? I've tried killing jack through
> the terminal and the device manager. That doesn't do the trick! My guess
> is I need something that problably restarts ALSA altogether.
> Any ideas??
>
> Many thanks!
>
> John
>
>
>
>   
sudo /etc/init.d/alsa-utils restart

This should restart ALSA, at least it does on my Ibex and Hardy.

/Sandie*
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