jack and sound restarting

[Khashayar Naderehvandi]

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 1:47 PM, john <producjohns at gmail.com> 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??
>
If it's a firewire device, you might need to shut it down (with the
hardware switch) and turn it back on. At least that has been needed
once or twice with my Edirol FA-66.

Regards,
K.