problems with the es1370

[David Terrell <dbt_(_at_)_meat_(_dot_)_net>]

I'm having trouble with skips in the ensoniq driver.  Basically I
get noise in the output (static skips at regular intervals, about
4 or 5 per second).  It doesn't start right away, and closing
/dev/audio and reopening fixes the problem temporarily.  It seems
to show up after sustained playback.  When I tried 
dd if=file.wav | pcmplay -, it started after about 30 seconds.
mpg123 playback does it after around 5 minutes.  If I kill the player
and restart it the noise disappears for a while.

Any suggestions, ideas for places to screw around with debugging, etc?
(Why do I always find kinky hardware problems on my stable machine,
anyway?)

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