How to kill the sound driver?

ironz · 07-06-2003, 12:53 PM

Hi there,

i cannot stop de OSS sound driver

I type : Soundoff then they said

cmpci: Device or resource busy
uart401: Device or resource busy
opl3: Device or resource busy
pnp: Device or resource busy
soundbase: Device or resource busy
sndshield: Device or resource busy

If i try soundon,
OSS driver (sndshield) is already loaded
Use soundoff to unload it and try again.

does linux have a safe mode (with no sound drivers loaded)?????

finegan · 07-06-2003, 06:00 PM

Your desktop mixer is always accessing the card, I don't know which RedHat is using, gmix or aRts or whatnot, but if you kill whatever is using the card it will let you unload the modules.

Offhand, I also have a cmpci based card, the CMI 8738 chipset, and my card would occasionally stall for 30-90 seconds, I disable KDE's aRts sound server, and the problem went away.

Cheers

Finegan