Debian stable (up to date), stock kernel 2.6.8-2-686. The sound card is a CMI 8738 and uses alsa (snd-cmipci).
I have a new sound-card on my stable system. The card works just fine as long as I don't try browsing my fat partitions with mc. Than the sound gets corrupted. It gets distorted (though I use digital out) and it now has much lower volume. The only way to get rid of this is to reboot. Reloading the module will not help. It might work if I first start mc and access the fat partition and then start the music. Using only the cli will not affect the sound. I even tried 'cd /mnt/music;ls' to get as close as possible to what mc is doing. Trying to diagnose this I split my big fat partition into 3, one of which I formated as ext2. Browsing this one is ok, but the first time I hit enter "on top" of a fat mount point in mc the sound breaks. I'm not sure if this is hardware or software as I recall having sound distortions in windoze too, though I never bothered to investigate, as I use it very seldom. I included only some basic info about the box as I'm not sure what might prove useful. Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
