[LAU] Hard lock-ups -- Trying to narrow the cause

david gnome at hawaii.rr.com
Mon May 25 02:06:38 EDT 2009


Hmmm, haven't had any lockups I'd attribute to my laptop's Intel sound card:

00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM 
(ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)

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

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David
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