Ken,<br><br>I have an Intel soundcard:<br><br><div style="margin-left: 40px;">aaron@mycomputername:~$ lspci |grep -e Audio<br>00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)<br>
<br></div>I'm hosed huh.<br><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><br></div><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><br></div><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 6:41 PM, Ken Restivo <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ken@restivo.org">ken@restivo.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 12:12:02PM -0400, Darren Landrum wrote:<br>
> Just had another lockup, a hard one (not even the mouse pointer would<br>
> move) In addition (and this always happens, I forgot to mention it), the<br>
> audio in the sound buffer at the time of the lock-up will loop over and<br>
> over again making a sort of jack-hammer noise depending on what was in<br>
> there at the time.<br>
><br>
> This time, I had no proprietary Nvidia driver going, so that's<br>
> eliminated as the cause. Unfortunately, I didn't ping the machine<br>
> because it suddenly occurred to me that I'd never tried to ping the<br>
> machine when it was working, so any result might be meaningless. I'll be<br>
> sure to capture that baseline today.<br>
><br>
> The other things I've eliminated is Flash playback, as this happened<br>
> when I was playing back a long mp3 (a BBC podcast) in Totem. One other<br>
> pattern I've noticed is that these hangs always happen when I'm playing<br>
> back something with audio. I guess the next logical test is to go a week<br>
> or so without playing anything and see what happens.<br>
><br>
> So, I think it has to be the sound card. Whether it's a driver issue or<br>
> a hardware issue remains to be seen.<br>
><br>
> You can consider this email an angry rant more than anything, I suppose.<br>
> :-/ Thanks for the help.<br>
><br>
<br>
</div>It wouldn't happen to be an HDA-Intel sound card, would it?<br>
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-ken<br>
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