[LAU] alsa problem

[Lee Revell]

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