[LAU] alsa problem

[Lee Revell]

On 8/20/07, Lee Revell <rlrevell at joe-job.com> wrote:
> On 20 Aug 2007 01:30:32 -0000, arisstotle.54695488 at bloglines.com
> <arisstotle.54695488 at bloglines.com> wrote:
> > This has to be one of those problems with an overly simple solution, but it
> > escapes me atm. I first noticed it with xmms, playing music, of any sort,
> > it will play fine for a while, then will stop, as if waiting to fill up a
> > buffer, but never starts back again, it also continues to display the play
> > symbol but no time advancement. I've narrowed it down to being an alsa problem,
> > because when I run aplay somesound.wav, aplay never exits, and the sound loops
> > indefinitely.
>
> Usually this indicates an interrupt routing or ACPI problem.
>
> Please check whether the interrupt count for the sound device stops
> increasing in /proc/interrupts when aplay loops like this.  If so then
> plea
>

Argh, fscking gmail!  This should end "please report the bug to
linux-kernel mailing list"

Lee