From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 21 22:03:46 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C30F916A4B3 for ; Sun, 21 Sep 2003 22:03:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from imf17aec.mail.bellsouth.net (imf17aec.mail.bellsouth.net [205.152.59.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6C1643FA3 for ; Sun, 21 Sep 2003 22:03:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nickpub@imap.cc) Received: from imap.cc ([68.211.70.71]) by imf17aec.mail.bellsouth.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.27 201-253-122-126-127-20021220) with ESMTP id <20030922050346.NJBS1821.imf17aec.mail.bellsouth.net@imap.cc> for ; Mon, 22 Sep 2003 01:03:46 -0400 Message-ID: <3F6E82B4.9020602@imap.cc> Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 01:03:48 -0400 From: Nicholas Holley User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030909 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FREEBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: soundcard stopping? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 05:03:46 -0000 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?