[alsa-devel] resetting an audio device?

[Clemens Ladisch]

william estrada wrote:
>    I got my alsa player code to work.  Now I need to figure out how to
> reset the audio device?  I don't want to close the device, just recycle
> it.

When the device is not running (i.e., after calling snd_pcm_drop()),
call snd_pcm_hw_free() to free the configuration; then you can set a
new configuration with the snd_pcm_hw_params* functions.


HTH
Clemens