On Donnerstag, 19. April 2007, Bill Unruh wrote: > On Thu, 19 Apr 2007, Alexey Eremenko wrote: > > hi all ! > > > > My uptime in Linux doesn't really go over 2 days... why ? > > > > Because there is some very deep driver issue with my audio hardware, > > VIA 8237 audio. > > That is when working, my sound system suddenly fails, and starts to > > produce noise. - the problem is so deep that even "init 6" - full > > restart doesn't helps ! ! rcalsasound restart (ALSA service restart) > > doesn't help too. > > sorry, why are you rebooting? Just remove the driver? I there is stillsound > then I suspect hardware-- eg your disk drive is dieing, rather than the > soundcard. as he already wrote - he reboots to get sound back. MAybe you should read his mail again? > > > I still hear that noise even in GRUB Bootloader, where should be no > > sound at all ! ! ! > > Since there is no sound driver then, that rules out Linux as a problem! no, since the sound in grub is the result of failing sound in linux, it is a linux problem. > > > That is very old bug, affecting SUSE Linux 10.0 and maybe earlier... > > No, it is a problem with your system, not with Linux. If it makes the sound > when Linux is not there, then the problem is NOT linux. The sound is the result from running linux, so it is a linux problem. > > > link in openSUSE bugzilla: > > https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=263022 > > > > Platform: openSUSE 10.2, alsa 1.0.13, 32-bit, AMD Sempron, VIA KM400 > > chipset, VIA > > 8237 audio, 1GB of RAM. > > > > Things that help: > > -Reboot into Windows, (windows drivers seem to restart my audio hardware) > > -System shutdown via init 0, and then cold-start > > > > any ideas? > one question, when sound fails, does this correlate with, like someone switches on the light or some electrical device? A friend of mine had a funny problem - everytime someone switched on/off light, his sound was gone... ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
