Comment 56 for bug 34831

Yeah, you're right. It happens also for me in a hda-intel soundcard in a laptop. The owner of that laptop has bought a sound blaster 24-bit usb, and I made a script which unloads all snd_ modules and loads snd-usb-audio and snd-seq, so he can use MIDI programs (although there is no MIDI support for that soundcard in linux, I think).

What I wanted to say is that the problem may be tracked down starting in emu10k1_synth.c which is 120 lines long.

By the way, it should be noted that I had a similar problem in breezy (or hoary, not sure): The entire sistem freezes because snd-seq wasn't loaded. So I would load that module, and it worked.