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Date:      Mon, 17 Jul 2000 15:10:54 -0500
From:      "Richard Seaman, Jr." <dick@tar.com>
To:        Jan Rhebergen <jan.rhebergen@pobox.com>
Cc:        David Johnson <djohnson@acuson.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: es1371 Sound Card
Message-ID:  <20000717151054.A641@tar.com>
In-Reply-To: <E13EH3w-0000kz-00@uniques.linux.bogus>; from jan.rhebergen@pobox.com on Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 10:00:24PM %2B0200
References:  <3973633D.BE3CEE19@acuson.com> <E13EH3w-0000kz-00@uniques.linux.bogus>

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On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 10:00:24PM +0200, Jan Rhebergen wrote:
> David,
> 
> I've got the same kind of trouble although I've not researched it as thourough 
> as you. I can play a sound just once and then no more.
> 
> djohnson@acuson.com said:
> > I've been having strange problems, and I'm assuming they are related
> > to my sound card. I have an es1371 (the box said SB16 PCI). I have
> > included 'device pcm0' in my kernel config, and the sound card is
> > actually working. I am using 4.0-RELEASE.
> 
> > However, some oddities are occuring that may be related. I'm thinking
> > that I might need more than the above line in my configuration. First
> > of all, xmms is segfaulting an awful lot. About every third mod file
> > it will crash. I am using the OSS sound driver in xmms. Second, the
> > KDE audio keeps cutting out. Sometimes a system sound will play and
> > other times it won't. If I open up the system sounds dialog, select a
> > wav file, then press 'test', the sound will play. But pressing it
> > again will do nothing. Then afterwards it will work again. These
> > problems occur in both the -RELEASE and -CURRENT packages.

I'd be curious what the output of "vmstat -i" is just before and just
after you play something (or during play, where you wait a few seconds
in between).  

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