25 May
2009
25 May
'09
4:12 a.m.
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@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:
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David
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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