On Sun, Aug 06, 2000 at 04:19:10AM -0700, Stephen A. Ramsey wrote:
> I'm having problems with my SoundBlaster PCI sound card.  The chipset of
> the sound card is the Ensoniq 1371, which is supported by the "eap" device
> driver.  I can play sounds with this driver, but frequently the sound
> player hangs, in such a way that the sound player application does not
> even respond to sigkill.  After about 10 seconds, it eventually responds
> to the sigkill and dies.  To exercise the problem, I repeatedly start and
> sigint a sound player like mpg123 (though I can reproduce the bug by using
> other sound players as well).  After four or five iterations of this, the
> sound player hangs.  So the problem tends to show up when you skip forward
> repeatedly for a few songs in some GUI MP3 player (e.g., gqmpeg or
> smartplay).

Yes, this problem has been reported before. Somehow the card doesn't
actually play the audio data, and the driver waits in vain for it
to finish (with a timeout, that's why you can kill it after some
time).

I'd like to see this fixed for 1.5, and as I do have such a card myself,
I should look into it.

- Frank