Hi Hans, Wednesday 01 October 2003 01.39 skrev Hans Fugal: > I'm hoping there's a simple solution to this that I've just missed > somewhere along the line. Occasionally something will crash while using > oss emulation and I can't use the sound card until I reboot. I've tried > lsof /dev/dsp and as many other variations as I can think of and I never > get anything (even when sound is playing), which I think is related to > using devfs. I've also tried fuser, and good old visual grep on the > output of ps and nothing is running that would use the soundcard yet I > can't unload the snd-pcm-oss module. > > This time it was timidity (which I have promptly uninstalled since this > version seems capable of nothing other than locking up my soundcard), > but it has been mplayer in the past. > > Is there some way to restore access to the sound card short of > rebooting?
This is probably one of two things, none is easy to fix. 1. Driver problem. If the driver fails due to a bug, it generally leads to that the hardware is left in an undefined state. Meaning that there is absolutely nothing you can do but reboot. Long term solution is to get a new driver or fix the old one, since you mention OSS I would propose trying the ALSA drivers. If you need OSS support there is a compatibility layer. 2. Actual hardware problem. Might be the motherboard but in general it's the soundcard. It might help to switch pci-slot. Otherwise the only solution is to get new hardware... - Unless you are experiencing other hardware related problems, lockups, reboots etc I think driver problems would be the more probable. /Robert
