On Wed, May 04, 2005 at 02:15:37AM +0200, Nicolas FRANCOIS enlightened
us thusly
> I have an ENS 1371 sound card (and a 2005 SVN LFS, less than one
> month). I compiled the alsa driver in the kernel, and now experience
> some problems with some games (Enigma for example) : at a certain
> time, the system crash, and I have to reboot (yes !).
The es1371 chip is _not_ your average soundcard, more like the
"winsoundard" (think of winmodemds :-o). The cpu does a lot more work
and in windows it uses megabytes of drivers. Have a look in your kernel
source ~/Documentation/sound/oss/es1371.txt for a good description of
the problems.
>
> I know it comes from sound because before I was belonging to the audio
> group, I had no trouble. Now, some games definitly freeze the system
> (or just X, but I don't know how to get out).
I would start by reading
~/Documentation/sound/alsa/ALSA-Configuration.txt where it refers to
your card. Build a kernel with modules and allowing forced unloading
of them. That way you can have options in modprobe.conf to help you.
When things go horribly wrong, you can use Ctrl_Alt_F<something> open a
root console, and forcibly remove the module or kill processes.
If your problem is simply that you have to join the audio group again,
please arrange to have yourself shot at dawn for asking us to debug your
system, when we should have been debugging the sysadmin :).
>
> Do you have a solution ? Do I have to compile the driver in module
> form ? And if so, how do I configure uudev ?
Join the audio group. If that fixes it, the instructions are above.
Have fun with udev. What is that anyhow?:-) The trouble with living 'on
the bleeding edge' is that you bleed. When all you guys have grey
hair from debugging it, then I'll think about using it.But linux
crashing is stupid. You have a setup, compile, or permissions error.
If you change everything in the sound area to 666 you'll soon find out
if permissions was your problem. Then fix it.
All the Best
Declan.
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