Re: es1370 sound stopped working

[Ron Hale-Evans <rwhe@ludism.org>]

> On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Ron Hale-Evans wrote:
>
>  > 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).
>
>    I have had similar problems with this module for my Ensoniq
> Soundcard. It seems to happen when a program that uses the sound does
> not exit cleanly.
>
>    The (bad) solution I use is rmmod es1370;insmod es1370. Normally this
> works.
>
>    I believe the right solution would be to try and debug this module.
> Or maybe first check if it has changed in 2.4.

Thanks. I tried removing and reinstalling es1370 and soundcore with 
both rmmod/insmod and modconf, and rebooted a couple of times, but 
any attempt to play sound still hangs.

Aaargh... Does anyone have any other ideas?
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