Re: nforce2 audio problem on 2.6.3

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

At Thu, 19 Feb 2004 09:03:53 +0100,
Johan Bilien wrote:
> 
> Hi,
>                                                                                 
> Since I moved from linux-2.6.2 to linux-2.6.3-rc2, and then 2.6.3, I am
> experiencing a strange problem with all the GStreamer applications: as
> soon as GStreamer tries to play out a sound, the system gets extremely
> slow, and no sound comes out (although the GStreamer applications do not
> complain and seem to be playing the sound find). I have only noticed
> this behaviour with GStreamer, xmms, mpg321, VLC  etc. play sounds out,
> but the sound suffers small interuptions now and then.
> 
> I am using a nforce2 motherboard, and the snd_intel8x0 ALSA driver. I
> saw the recent thread regarding this driver being broken in the 1.0
> serie, so I apply the patch given in the thread, but still get my
> problem.

it likely has nothing to do with the problem of that thread.
it seems that some nforce2 boards generate the unknown interrupts.
i'm not sure whether it's in the ALSA side or in other kernel part.
please try to copy the old ALSA tree from 2.6.2 to 2.6.3 (linux/sound
and include/sound) and try the old driver on 2.6.3.


Takashi


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