From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lee Revell Subject: Re: Problem with several Creative Labs soundcards, possibly more? Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 19:58:53 -0400 Message-ID: <1129939134.4724.26.camel@mindpipe> References: <4356C414.9060008@superbug.co.uk> <4356C875.5030607@superbug.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: alsa-user-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: alsa-user-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: Nazo Cc: alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net, alsa-devel List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 17:19 -0500, Nazo wrote: > When I got it to sucessfully boot, and tried to play something, it > played one frame over and over in a loop (kind of like what happens > when the system locks up in the middle of a game or something.) When > the application was closed and another different sound file was > attempted, it gave an IO error and no sound came out at all. Based on > the way it kind of acted like the hardware locked up or something, my > first guess would be maybe something along the lines of an IRQ > conflict or somesuch? That's just a guess though. Anyway, he thought > it might be useful if I provided some extra info, so I've added them > to the bottom of the message: > OK, this is a classic sign that interrupts are not being acknowledged properly. It's not a problem with the ALSA drivers but with the kernel. Probably an ACPI issue. What is the make and model of your motherboard? Does it work if you boot with "pci=noacpi"? Lee ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl