Re: 2.6.24-rc7, intel audio: alsa doesn't say a beep

[Daniel Hazelton <dhazelton@enter.net>]

On Tuesday 15 January 2008 05:08:45 Takashi Iwai wrote:
> At Mon, 14 Jan 2008 16:03:22 -0500,
>
> Daniel Hazelton wrote:
> > On Monday 14 January 2008 06:04:20 Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > <snip>
> >
> > > > Could this have anything to do with the following messages I've seen
> > > > when trying -rc7 ?
> > > >
> > > > [    7.760269] pnpacpi: exceeded the max number of mem resources: 12
> > >
> > > Judging from Harald's report, it looks like a different problem.
> > > The buggy patch (regarding HDA-intel) was, at least, already reverted
> > > on Linus git tree.  Could you give it a try?
> > >
> > >
> > > Takashi
> >
> > Sorry, still no sound. Config, lspci and dmesg attached to help. System
> > is, as stated, Dell Inspiron 1420n running a 64bit kernel and userland.
>
> Hm, has the sound on ever 2.6.24-rc kernel worked with your machine?
>
> Anyway, try to change HZ=300.  I got a report that HZ=1000 causes the
> similar problem but HZ=300 not.
>
>
> Takashi

That did it. Looks like the hardware really is that sensitive to the timing. 
Strange, but I've seen worse.

DRH

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