On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 12:12:02PM -0400, Darren Landrum wrote: > Just had another lockup, a hard one (not even the mouse pointer would > move) In addition (and this always happens, I forgot to mention it), the > audio in the sound buffer at the time of the lock-up will loop over and > over again making a sort of jack-hammer noise depending on what was in > there at the time. > > This time, I had no proprietary Nvidia driver going, so that's > eliminated as the cause. Unfortunately, I didn't ping the machine > because it suddenly occurred to me that I'd never tried to ping the > machine when it was working, so any result might be meaningless. I'll be > sure to capture that baseline today. > > The other things I've eliminated is Flash playback, as this happened > when I was playing back a long mp3 (a BBC podcast) in Totem. One other > pattern I've noticed is that these hangs always happen when I'm playing > back something with audio. I guess the next logical test is to go a week > or so without playing anything and see what happens. > > So, I think it has to be the sound card. Whether it's a driver issue or > a hardware issue remains to be seen. > > You can consider this email an angry rant more than anything, I suppose. > :-/ Thanks for the help. > It wouldn't happen to be an HDA-Intel sound card, would it? -ken _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
