On Freitag, 20. April 2007, Bill Unruh wrote: > On Thu, 19 Apr 2007, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > 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? > > No, he states in the next sentence that upon reboot he still hears the > noise. Maybe you should read it again. he wrote: 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 ! ! and: I still hear that noise even in GRUB Bootloader, where should be no sound at all ! ! ! so the problem starts in linux - and a simple reboot into linux does not solve it. That makes it a linux problem. > > > > The sound is the result from running linux, so it is a linux problem. > > I am afraid that I disagree. It is a harware bug. Now Linux may trigger > that bug. -- eg the LG CDRom drives which had a firmware bug in the command > set which, contrary to their claim, would put the CD into the firmware > rewrite mode when an innocuous ( according to their own specs) command was > sent to it. That was a bug in firmware on the CDrom, even though that bug > was triggered because Mandriva used that command. But windows a) does not show that behaviour and b) loading the windows drivers removes the noise. That makes it a linux problem. About the cdrom drives and Mandrake (back then they were still Mandrake): Mandrake sent a badly defined command to a cdrom drive and turned it into a brick. Yes, it was LGs fault at first, but since Mandrake turned the drive into a brick and windows did not, it was a Mandrake problem. > > Again, almost certainly a hardware bug in the sound card. that does only show up in linux..... so even if it is a hardware problem - since windows can solve/workaround it and linux can't, it makes it a linux problem. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
