1 Oct
2003
1 Oct
'03
3:39 p.m.
Okay, I'm trying to be a little more fastidious
about finding what's wrong. My HDSP/MF soundcard freezes with several applications,
including play, mpg321, and when I play a soundfile in audacity. It always happens at the
end of the soundfile, or if I command-C or push the stop button (in audacity) while the
soundfile is playing. It says there's a segmentation fault, and then I can't get
my card to respond to any app at all (they all say the device is busy or nonexistent). ps
aux doesn't show anything at all. When I try /sbin/service alsasound restart, I get
this:
/sbin/service alsasound restart
Shutting down sound driversnd-pcm-oss: Device or resource busy
snd-mixer-oss: Device or resource busy
snd-hdsp: Device or resource busy
snd-pcm: Device or resource busy
snd-timer: Device or resource busy
snd-rawmidi: Device or resource busy
snd-seq-device: Device or resource busy
snd-hwdep: Device or resource busy
snd: Device or resource busy
[ OK ]
ALSA driver already running
Sound driver snd-hdsp is already loaded
Look into /var/log/meessages, you will probably find an "Ooops" there
(that's a crash inside the kernel, it can bring the whole machine down
or - looks like your case - it affects only a driver or sets of
drivers). Once you get into that state only a reboot can cure it.
If you find an Oops you should feed all the relevant lines into
"ksymoops" and post the result to alsa-devel...
-- Fernando