How do you reset a frozen PCI soundcard without rebooting?

On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 11:31:44 -0500, m.j.s. wrote:

No, *I* get the full picture now : you just want to play savior, and
damn anyone who stands in your way... including the OP, who's problem
you only half-read (and it's not the first time, either).

I am not your guinea pig and I don't owe you or the world anything. I'm
happy to receive any help I can get, but I am under no obligation to
share your hero complex and save the cheerleader at the detriment of my
own time and productivity.

I told you the "Share Driver With Other Programs" checkbox exists for a
reason, and even if the soundcard WERE to stop crashing with it
unchecked, IT WOULDN'T BE OF ANY HELP TO ME BECAUSE I NEED IT CHECKED,
you arrogant cow.

You need all the information you can get.

I think 'devcon restart {long device name}' will do what you want.

mjs wrote:

No, I need it checked when I'm using my DAW. That checkbox exists for
a reason, and I'm one of those people those reasons apply to. ;-)

In other words, finding out if unchecking that box helps doesn't
really help me.

Doing it temporarily *does* help you: by determining whether or not sharing
drivers is causing the lock-ups, you'll have more information about your DAW
setup than you have now, and can better decide how to approach solving the
problem.

If unchecking the box does solve the problem, btw, there's something hogging
the resource. (besides Sonar, which normally doesn't

I'd be crippling the right hand to free the left one.
There is no happy ending down that path.

Finding out what the problem (and potentially therefore, knowing its
solution) seems a damned happy start, though.


"Sue Morton" wrote in message
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Why do you need it checked, in order to test this?
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Sue Morton

"mjs" wrote in message
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No idea. I kinda need it checked. :-S

"Sue Morton" wrote in message
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What happens if you uncheck it? Does the Gina still lock up?
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Sue Morton

"mjs" wrote in message
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Yep.

"Sue Morton" wrote in message
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Do you have the option "share drivers with other apps" checked in
Sonar?