Restart ALSA driver on OpenSuse

From time to time it can happens that your sound driver stops to work completely or just for some application.

In this case you need to restart your ALSA driver. Here you can see how you can do it on OpenSuse:

start terminal and type
cd /etc/init.d/
sudo ./alsasound restart

After this your driver are restarted and you are ready to continue with your works ;).

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