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