Hello! When I try to play a wav or mp3, I only hear a stuttering replay of the first half second or so, again and again for several seconds. Whenever an app plays a sound (say, kmail when finished downloading new messages), it gets repeated with hideous rasping sounds interspersed with the actual sound.
ALSA at boot up says snd: ESS Solo-1 reset failed snd_solo_write_cmd timeout (0x02c6/0x0280) snd_solo_write_cmd timeout (0x02b9/0x0280) snd_solo_write_cmd timeout (0x022/0x0280) snd_solo_write_cmd timeout (0x02c0/0x0280) snd_solo_write_cmd timeout (0x02b1/0x0280) snd_solo_write_cmd timeout (0x02b1/0x0280) snd_solo_write_cmd timeout (0x025f/0x0280) snd_solo_write_cmd timeout (0x02c0/0x0280) snd_solo_write_cmd timeout (0x02b2/0x0280) snd_solo_write_cmd timeout (0x02b2/0x0280) snd_solo_write_cmd timeout (0x025f/0x0280) es1938 this takes about a second to go through. If I do /etc/init.d/alsa restart of force-restart, the only output on a lucky day is "es1938" and everything works fine. But sometimes, the /etc/init.d/alsa start command completely freezes the entire system -- can't even use the keyboard to switch to a virtual console. I'm using kde and arts. I have esound installed, but it isn't running. (manually running esd causes the same stutter problem with a weird, low sound.) Any ideas what's wrong? Any help would be much appreciated!!!