Greetings, all-- I am running Potato with a SoundBlaster PCI64 sound card, which uses the es1370 kernel module. I installed the soundcore and es1370 modules a couple of days ago, did a chmod a+rw to all /dev devices in group 'audio', and everything worked fine.
This morning I was using the Windows program Zillions of Games under Wine 20001202 (latest snapshot). It had been working well for days, when suddenly the sound went out. Thinking I had befuddled Wine with a failed install from earlier in the day, I reinstalled Wine and Zillions. Still no sound. Hmm... I tried playing a sound with 'bplay JUNGLE.WAV' -- it just hung. I tried 'xmms JUNGLE.WAV'. The xmms window popped open, but pressing the PLAY button did nothing. I couldn't bplay any other sound either. Yes, the sound files seem to be OK; I checked them on another machine. I tried 'cat JUNGLE.WAV > /dev/dsp'. This worked when I first set up sound a few days ago, but today it just hangs again. Any idea why attempts to play sounds, by whatever means, should suddenly start hanging? I am appending as much relevant system data as I can think of. Thanks, and happy holidays... Ron H-E ***** The 'unloading' line below is from when I removed es1370 from the kernel and reinstalled it with modconf, AFTER sound failed. # grep es1370 /var/log/syslog Dec 14 13:45:04 linnaeus kernel: es1370: version v0.31 time 09:53:32 Jun 25 2000 Dec 14 13:45:04 linnaeus kernel: es1370: found adapter at io 0x6000 irq 7 Dec 14 13:45:04 linnaeus kernel: es1370: features: joystick off, line in, mic impedance 0 Dec 14 15:40:59 linnaeus kernel: es1370: unloading Dec 14 15:41:42 linnaeus kernel: es1370: version v0.31 time 09:53:32 Jun 25 2000 Dec 14 15:41:42 linnaeus kernel: es1370: found adapter at io 0x6000 irq 7 Dec 14 15:41:42 linnaeus kernel: es1370: features: joystick off, line in, mic impedance 0 ***** # cat /proc/pci PCI devices found: Bus 0, device 0, function 0: Host bridge: Intel 82437 (rev 2). Medium devsel. Master Capable. Latency=32. Bus 0, device 7, function 0: ISA bridge: Intel 82371FB PIIX ISA (rev 2). Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. Master Capable. No bursts. Bus 0, device 7, function 1: IDE interface: Intel 82371FB PIIX IDE (rev 2). Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. Master Capable. Latency=32. I/O at 0x3000 [0x3001]. Bus 0, device 9, function 0: VGA compatible controller: Matrox Millennium (rev 1). Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 5. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe0800000 [0xe0800000]. Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe0000000 [0xe0000008]. Bus 0, device 11, function 0: Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq AudioPCI (rev 0). Slow devsel. IRQ 7. Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=12.Max Lat=128. I/O at 0x6000 [0x6001]. ***** # ls -l /dev | grep audio crw-rw-rw- 1 root audio 14, 4 Jul 5 10:44 audio crw-rw-rw- 1 root audio 14, 20 Jul 5 10:44 audio1 crw-rw-rw- 1 root audio 14, 36 Jul 5 10:44 audio2 crw-rw-rw- 1 root audio 14, 52 Jul 5 10:44 audio3 crw-rw-rw- 1 root audio 14, 3 Jul 5 10:44 dsp crw-rw-rw- 1 root audio 14, 19 Jul 5 10:44 dsp1 crw-rw-rw- 1 root audio 14, 35 Jul 5 10:44 dsp2 crw-rw-rw- 1 root audio 14, 51 Jul 5 10:44 dsp3 crw-rw-rw- 1 root audio 35, 0 Jul 5 10:44 midi0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root audio 14, 2 Jul 5 10:44 midi00 crw-rw-rw- 1 root audio 14, 18 Jul 5 10:44 midi01 crw-rw-rw- 1 root audio 14, 34 Jul 5 10:44 midi02 crw-rw-rw- 1 root audio 14, 50 Jul 5 10:44 midi03 crw-rw-rw- 1 root audio 35, 1 Jul 5 10:44 midi1 crw-rw-rw- 1 root audio 35, 2 Jul 5 10:44 midi2 crw-rw-rw- 1 root audio 35, 3 Jul 5 10:44 midi3 crw-rw-rw- 1 root audio 14, 0 Jul 5 10:44 mixer crw-rw-rw- 1 root audio 14, 16 Jul 5 10:44 mixer1 crw-rw-rw- 1 root audio 14, 32 Jul 5 10:44 mixer2 crw-rw-rw- 1 root audio 14, 48 Jul 5 10:44 mixer3 crw-rw-rw- 1 root audio 31, 0 Jul 5 10:44 mpu401data crw-rw-rw- 1 root audio 31, 1 Jul 5 10:44 mpu401stat crw-rw-rw- 1 root audio 35, 64 Jul 5 10:44 rmidi0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root audio 35, 65 Jul 5 10:44 rmidi1 crw-rw-rw- 1 root audio 35, 66 Jul 5 10:44 rmidi2 crw-rw-rw- 1 root audio 35, 67 Jul 5 10:44 rmidi3 crw-rw-rw- 1 root audio 14, 1 Jul 5 10:44 sequencer crw-rw-rw- 1 root audio 35, 128 Jul 5 10:44 smpte0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root audio 35, 129 Jul 5 10:44 smpte1 crw-rw-rw- 1 root audio 35, 130 Jul 5 10:44 smpte2 crw-rw-rw- 1 root audio 35, 131 Jul 5 10:44 smpte3 crw-rw-rw- 1 root audio 14, 6 Jul 5 10:44 sndstat -- Ron's Info Closet: Center for Ludic Synergy, Kennexions Glass Bead Game, Positive Revolution FAQ, Hexagram-8 I Ching Mailing List, and links... Ron Hale-Evans ... <http://www.apocalypse.org/~rwhe/> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Further up and further in! fnord ... [EMAIL PROTECTED]