When turning up the volume, the sound dies and I'm forced to reboot...

When turning up the volume, the sound dies and I'm forced to reboot...

[Sean Thayne]

Hi All,

    I've got a via8237 audio card, and I'm using the latest alsa driver 
via82xx, and I got a problem. Basically if I start playing say a music 
file, and then turn the volume up above 75%, My sound craps out and I 
get a muffled, very low volume version of the song, the only way I've 
found to fix this is to reboot. This also happens randomly at low 
volume. I thought it might be a hardware issue, but I've tried it on 3 
other boxes with the same card.

Thanks for any input at all...
-- 
Sean Thayne

Re: When turning up the volume, the sound dies and I'm forced to reboot...

[Zoilo Gomez]

Sean,

Sounds like your problem is identical to the one that we have been 
currently discussing in another thread this week; check the archives for 
a temporary fix at: 
http://mailman.alsa-project.org/pipermail/alsa-devel/2008-April/007572.html.

I think that a proper patch can be made available soon.

Regards,

Z.


Sean Thayne wrote:
> Hi All,
>
>     I've got a via8237 audio card, and I'm using the latest alsa driver 
> via82xx, and I got a problem. Basically if I start playing say a music 
> file, and then turn the volume up above 75%, My sound craps out and I 
> get a muffled, very low volume version of the song, the only way I've 
> found to fix this is to reboot. This also happens randomly at low 
> volume. I thought it might be a hardware issue, but I've tried it on 3 
> other boxes with the same card.
>
> Thanks for any input at all...
>