This sounds a bit like what Mark Knecht was describing that was happening with his HDSP he downgraded the HDSP firmware from rev 68 to rev 65... ----- Original Message ----- From: <BrbrOfSvl@xxxxxxx> To: <linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 12:25 PM Subject: [linux-audio-user] HDSP and "play" > Hi, > > Matt again. So if you remember I have this problem where my hdsp freezes any time I use play (or any app that utilizes the play program, like maybe (?) audacity...). When I use play, it plays the soundfile, but afterward, I can't open any programs that would use my soundcard (some open but say it can't find the device or that the device is in use). When I run "ps aux" there's no indication of play being there. However, when I run play and it gets to the end of the soundfile, I hear what sounds like an amp clip, and I get this: > > /usr/bin/play: line 205: 1686 Segmentation fault sox $volume $fopts $fopts2 "$filename" $arch_defines $device $effects > > > The 1686 before the Segmentation fault seems to change depending on the soundfile (1802 is another I've had)... I'm not really sure what that number is. So I opened up my /usr/bin/play in vi to see what was in line 205 (I've displayed the last bit of the program): > > # If name is "rec" then record else assume user is wanting to play > # a sound file. > if [ "$program_name" = "rec" ]; then > > # Don't send data to stdout if they are reading from it. > if [ "$filename" = "-" ]; then > echo "Send break (control-c) to end recording" 1>&2 > else > echo "Send break (control-c) to end recording" > fi > sox $volume $arch_defines $fopts $device $fopts2 "$filename" $effects > > else > sox $volume $fopts $fopts2 "$filename" $arch_defines $device $effects > fi > > Line 205 is the final fi, but the line above that is the one that appears in the "error" message I get running play. Is there something in that line (or the rest of the program) that I should change to get it to work with my hdsp? I have an onboard nVidia soundcard that works with play just fine, and aplay works fine with both cards. Is it a problem in the play program, or maybe the alsa hdsp driver I'm using? Another thing I noticed is that when I use play, the signal is being sent to all the channels on the hdspmixer, whereas when I use aplay, it sends it just to the first two. What gives? > > Also, when this happens, I've been rebooting the machine... is there a way maybe to restart alsa instead? > > Thanks, > > Matt
