Re: no sound in squeeze-SOLVED

[Paul Cartwright <debian@pcartwright.com>]

On 02/21/2011 10:55 AM, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> What's alsasound? I have alsa-utils...
> 
> Good clue on speaker-test, 1st time I heard of that.
> 
> Hugo

# ls -l /etc/init.d/als*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5695 Sep 24  2007 /etc/init.d/alsasound
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 9651 Oct  4 14:14 /etc/init.d/alsa-utils

when my firefox sound goes away/gets garbled... I just do
/etc/init.d/alsasound restart.

/etc/init.d/alsa-utils:
# Short-Description: Restore and store ALSA driver settings
# Description:       This script stores and restores mixer levels on
#                    shutdown and bootup.On sysv-rc systems: to
#                    disable storing of mixer levels on shutdown,
#                    remove /etc/rc[06].d/K50alsa-utils.  To disable
#                    restoring of mixer levels on bootup, rename the
#                    "S50alsa-utils" symbolic link in /etc/rcS.d/ to
#                    "K50alsa-utils".

### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:       alsasound
# Required-Start: $remote_fs
# Required-Stop: $remote_fs
# Default-Start:  2 3 5
# Default-Stop:
# Description:    Loading ALSA drivers and store/restore the current setting

utils stores the settings, alsasound loads/unloads the drivers..



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Paul Cartwright