Sound and CD-RW (Update)

[Pete]

Pete wrote:
> Fedora Core 3
> 2.5.10-1.766_FC3
> I686
> 
> Problem:  I occasionally lose the ability to access my CD-RW device and 
> I lose my sound sporatically.  These two problems seem to happen 
> simultaneously.  I have tried everything that I know to get these 
> devices to work properly with no avail.
> 
> Solution Attempts:  I have removed/redetected the sound.  I have tried 
> mounting and unmounting the CD-RW.  It may be coincidence, but the sound 
> and CD-RW did appear to work when I had started my Konqueror File 
> Manager Super User mode.  I needed to restart the system (just to get 
> into Windows) and started back into Linux and the sound and CD-RW were 
> inaccessable.
> 
> Note:  Even when I cannot hear normal system and application sounds, I 
> can play the sample sound under Control Center, Sound & Multimedia, 
> Sound System.
> 
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
> 
> Pete
> 

I now have partial sound (no sounds in Gaim but some system alerts are 
working.) I did not make any system changes, except I did start 
Konqueror in su.

Still no access to CD-RW

Oh.. here are the devices:
CD-RW - Optiwrite CD-RW
Sound - Soundblaster 128 (Fedora detects this as an Ensoniq ES1371)

Pete