Re: Sony VAIO I810 system freeze

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

At Tue, 25 Nov 2003 13:10:48 -0400,
Manuel Jander wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I just tried to help someone with a Sony VAIO + i810 audio device to
> install the latest ALSA driver. As soon as any access to the device
> occurs the system freezes. I tried 0.9.8 and 1.0.0pre2; same result.
> The OSS driver works, but skips all the time.

ACPI problem?

> The installed OS was SUSE 8.0 (by the way, what an annoyance to install
> kernel modules, version mismatch, no kernel headers .....)
 
the newer kernel may work better in this regard...


> Its an VAIO Pentium 4 (very small Notebook). I didn't had the chance to
> get a lspci output, sorry.
> 
> I haven't take much care about intel810 issues since i don't use such
> hardware, but that driver seems to definitely need some stability
> improvements.

unfortunately, the driver itself can't do so much.
also, onboard sound on notebook is in general horrible to support.

> I hope someone of the intel8x0 guys can take a look and wipe out away
> the nitroglycerin.


Takashi


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