I have an onboard soundcard supported by autri kernel's driver (Trident 4DWAVE 
based AC'97 Audio).

I have the same problem only if the onboard modem is disable. I must enable 
the modem in BIOS to not have this kind of problem with my soundcard.

But, very rarely, this occurs with me too.

Another problem with this driver is a big echo when playing something. 
This do not happens with the -current (since january) driver and I don't know 
why this driver is not in the last RELEASE.

On Tuesday 26 August 2003 13:13, Benjamin Walkenhorst wrote:
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> Hello everybody,
>
> I use a Creative SoundBlasterPCI 128 or something like that (supported by
> NetBSD's eap-driver, Linux calls it esr1371). With SuSE GNU/Linux 7.3
> (linux-2.4.20) and Windows2000 Professional it works flawlessly, and with
> NetBSD 1.6.1 it basically works, too, but I get strange errors.
> I installed 1.6 recently. Half of the times I fired it up, the soundcard
> was recognized normally. But half of the times I got*lots* of these errors:
>
> eap0: eap1371_ready_codec timeout 2
> eap0: eap1371_ready_codec timeout 3
>
> I found out others had these problem as well with 1.6. I even heard someone
> suspecting a VIA-chipset to be the cause; I own a VIA-based board, too
> (VIA82C686), and I already had some trouble with it, so I'm not
> surprised... I also heard 1.6.1 fixed this problem, so I gave it an
> upgrade.
> But the problem did not disappear, it got even worse. I get these
> timeout-errors now at about 75% to 100% of all startups. ;-(
> (My impression is, but I may be wrong, that GENERIC did behave even worse
> than my custom-built kernel.)
> If I try to play some sound, say an mp3-file, mpg123 complains about the
> bitrate not being supported, consumes nearly all the cpu time, while *tons*
> of the errors I already got at startup flood my syslog. ;-((
>
> This is a major issue since listening to music is of major importance to
> me. Is there any other solution to this issue besides getting a new
> motherboard or soundcard?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> kind regards,
>
> Benjamin
>
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> Benjamin Walkenhorst
> eMail: krylon@gmx.net
> homepage: http://www.krylon.de
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