On Thu, 3 Feb 2000, David Given wrote: > I'm running potato Debian on a boring beige 8200/120, using the DMA sound > driver compiled into kernel version 2.2.13. Now, it's mostly working very > well > --- the general sound quality is pretty good --- but I am having some > problems. > > You see, it claims to be OSS compatible. It's not particularly. It works okay > if I'm just streaming sound to it but if I try to do anything complex --- > like > running esd or xmms --- it's got a nasty tendency to fall over or lock up the > controlling process. > > Has anyone else met anything like this?
I am having the same problem for some time now, i checked with strace and always the process is stuck in a write to /dev/dsp. Sending a signal to the process will restart the write (as expected) and it manages to write a few bytes before blocking again. If i remember correctly the problem started around 2.2.9/11 the awacs driver didn't had any changes at that time so it must be something else. There are other people having the same problem too.. Kostas
