On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 13:08, Brent Thomson wrote: > Hi, all. I've been dealing with this problem for some time and I've > finally gotten tired enough of it to try to find a solution. The sound > card on my laptop (Dell Inspiron 8200) is quite flaky. By flaky I mean > that it sometimes works and sometimes doesn't. The only way I've found > to get it to work once it stops working is to reboot. Needless to say, > that's a pain. > > Anyway, it appears that the sound module is i810_audio. Is there a way > to get the kernel to reload it or to make it release any locks that > another program might have on the sound card? >
I've had similiar sounding problems with sound in linux before and at one point I was having some success doing an rmmod <sound-module> and then modprob <sound-module> to get that restarted and the sound working again. The other similar solution that seemed less sketchy to me was when I noticed one of my Mandrake boxes had a service called sound (or maybe it was alsa, I can't remember). I was able to then to a 'service sound restart' to unload and load the modules and fix the flaky sound card. It seems like it would even tell me the pid of what process wasn't letting go so I could kill it before doing the restart. This was a while ago, so I'm not sure on all the details. These are all not ideal, you really want a sound card driver that doesn't flake out. I never found a good solution for that other than upgrading the system (i.e. Mandrake 8.2 to 9.0) and finding out that it worked better after the upgrade. Sorry... Bryan ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
