Re: [TCLUG:4378] Sound problems

[Ben Luey <lueyb@carleton.edu>]

If the problem goes away on reboot, then the problem is probably a
conflicting program loading. mp3's stop working for me whenever esd
(enlightenment sound daemon) is loaded. run `ps aux` and see if there are
any suspicious programs running. Good Luck,

Ben

On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Luke Francl wrote:

> Hi everybody...I'm having a problem with sound under Linux (Slackware 3.6,
> kernel 2.2.2). Last weekend, I had a friend help me get sound working (for
> the first time, woohoo!). I've got an Awe 64 PnP and support for it is
> compiled as a module. I use isapnp to configure the card...And it works
> fine for CDs all the time, but after some time of playing mp3s (in this
> case, it was about a day and a half) it will just suddenly stop working,
> giving me this error:
> 
> Sound error: Couldn't allocate DMA buffer
> Can't open /dev/dsp!
> 
> I'm using mpg123 to play my mp3s...Rebooting solved the problem last time,
> but now It's happened again...I don't really want to reboot every day and
> a half just so I can play music. (Shades of Windows!) 
> 
> Does anyone know what could causing this problem, or how to fix it?
> 
> Thanks,
> 	Luke
> 
> 
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