Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 01:03:48 -0400 From: Nicholas Holley <nickpub@imap.cc> To: FREEBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: soundcard stopping? Message-ID: <3F6E82B4.9020602@imap.cc>
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I'm running an up to date version of Freebsd 5.1, and I'm having
problems with my soundcard. I have an Asus a7n8x deluxe. The kernel has
pcm support compiled in and the sound card works mostly, but
occasionally the soundcard will not work properly.
For example:
- xmms will be playing fine for an hour and then stop with the
generic error about the soundcard being unavailable
- I'll pause mplayer and unpause it only to have it crash due to the
soundcard being unavailable
- snes9x will stop playing the sound after a short amount of
playtime
Most of the time, I see an error along the lines of an "illegal error".
With mplayer and xmms, usually a couple of tries and the sound will work
again. "fstat | grep dsp" will never output anything when the sound
isn't working so I don't think anything else is blocking the soundcard
plus I have 4 virtual channels set up so that shouldn't be possible anyway.
The problem is hard to cause or predict so I can't really provide more
specific situations, but I'm hoping that this has happened to someone
else before.
Thanks,
Nick
P.S. Has anyone seen anything about possible support of >2 channels on
this board or support of the nvidia nic?
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