Sound crashes after a few seconds

[James Bursa <james.bursa@oriel.oxford.ac.uk>]

I'm having some problems with sound on my Debian 2.2 machine. The
sound card is a SoundBlaster 16 PCI based on the es1373, and seems to
be identified correctly on startup:

es1371: version v0.22 time 09:53:39 Jun 25 2000
es1371: found chip, vendor id 0x1274 device id 0x1371 revision 0x08
es1371: found es1371 rev 8 at io 0xdc00 irq 11
es1371: features: joystick 0x0
es1371: codec vendor TRA (0x545241) revision 35 (0x23)
es1371: codec features none
es1371: stereo enhancement: no 3D stereo enhancement

When I attempt to play some sound, for example using mpg123 or
RealPlayer, the sound starts sounding correct. However, the system
crashes completely after a few seconds (I can't change virtual
terminal and have to reset).

Does anyone have any suggestions or can confirm that they are using
this card successfully?

Thanks,

James