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

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@email-addr-hidden:~$ 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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