<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/8df69f50-3059-4154-aef1-9f79aaf72dcb/A042D7A6-1C80-45FE-A2A1-B27C27E8969C/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=2742327" href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=2742327" style="font-size: 11px;">ubuntuforums.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=2742327"><DIV>I've always wondered this--you should only have to restart linux if you change the kernel!--and I think I found out how:</DIV> do: <BR /><DIV> sudo /etc/init.d/alsa-utils restart</DIV> <BR /><DIV> But sometimes this won't work if something is really holding on to the sound so do:</DIV> name@comp:~$ lsof | grep pcm sh 5079 name 70u CHR 116,6 13639 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p<BR /><DIV> esd 5080 name 70u CHR 116,6 13639 /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p</DIV> <BR /><DIV> to find the process id and then kill it and restart:</DIV> name@comp:~$ kill -9 5079 name@comp:~$ kill -9 5080 name@comp:~$ lsof | grep pcm<BR /><DIV> sudo /etc/init.d/alsa-utils restart</DIV> and hopefully that will work.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=2742327"><DIV id="post_message_3965817" class="vbclean_msgtext">I tried all of the above and nothing worked till I did /etc/init.d/alsa-utils reset One more thing to try.</DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/A042D7A6-1C80-45FE-A2A1-B27C27E8969C/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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