ALSA Get stuck

[Artik]

Hello,
I have problems with ALSA. It get stuck after some usage.

System:

Debian Sarge 3.1, Kernel 2.6.8-2_386, Desktop KDE.
Soundcard: Ensoniq ES1371 [AudioPCI-97]
HW: Pentium II 350MHz, 256MB

ALSA versions:
alsa-base 1.0.8-7
alsa-oss 1.0.8-1
alsa-utils 1.0.8-4

Mixing: using dmix module - defined by copying example file from documentation to ~/.asoundrc - works fine

Problem:

After some time of normal working (a day) ALSA output get stuck on first half second of the track and playbacks it constantly until I stop the ALSA application. It happens frequently after running some OSS programs (like mozilla/firefox) with aoss: "aoss firefox"

Not it is not nessary it may happen without running aoss.

All programs that I use are configured to work with ALSA - artsd, xmms.
The OSS simulation continue to work - I can run xmms with OSS output pluging (without aoss script) but can't run with ALSA output plugin.

What I've tryed without result

killall artsd (killed succesefully)
# /etc/init.d/alsa restart
# /etc/init.d/alsa reload
# /etc/init.d/alsa unload
All modules unloaded then I've loaded them manually with modproble
No result!!!

The only solution I've found is reboot.

This happens very frequently and very annoy me.

Note:
I've tryed to use ALSA from testing/unstable (1.0.9) but some application get crashed with it very frequently. So I rolled back to 1.0.8.

Can anybody help me please?

Artik

[Harold]

Beginning with kernel 2.6, OSS is deprecated and replaced by ALSA.
# apt-get install alsa-base alsa-utils libesd-alsa0 libsdl1.2debian-alsa gstreamer0.8-alsa aumix-gtk
# dpkg -l | grep oss to identify installed OSS packages, and remove those that can be safely removed.
# alsaconf

(If you need a good CD Player, do apt-get install grip :-)