"rcalsasound restart" shutdowns the volume control

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Hello,

I don’t shutdown my OS really often and sometimes the driver of my soundcard seems to crash so I need to restart it. I use the command “rcalsasound restart” which works well or “/etc/init.d/alsasound restart” but I lose the volume control during the operation. Moreover, I have a dell laptop with sound keys and naturally it doesn’t work to. Do you know how to restart the volume control applet? And I’d like to know why these commands don’t start also the volume control (I’d like to know a bit more how it works)

thanks

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rcalsasound restarts your sound driver, which means you will have to restart your mixer afterward and restore you volume settings. It is suppose to work that way.

If you are using KDE, just type ‘kmix’ in a terminal to restart the mixer.

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Ok thank you for your fast answer. It works well now and I also saw that you can access to kmix simply with the multimedia menu.