Hi all I recently installed Gentoo linux on my AMD Athlon64 system. Everything, except for the sound and network, seems to work fine. However, the sound and network are having a problem that I've never seen before and have had no luck at all researching. The sound card is an SB Audigy2 ZS Platinum PRO, the ethernet card is an onboard nVidia NForce3 250GB controller. The problem is this: if I'm using the soundcard for any extended length of time, both sound and network will lock up without warning and with absolutely no messages in the logs indicating a failure. The sound will repeat the last few seconds it was playing before the lock up in a repeated loop, while the network will not work at all--though there's no indication of failure in the output of ifconfig eth0 or dmesg. Bringing eth0 down then back up again, oddly enough, will correct both issues for a little while, but it will happen again. Usually I can't use the sound for any longer than ten minutes before this happens. I'm using the ALSA emu10k1 driver for the audigy, and I've tried both the free, kernel-provided driver and NVidia's proprietary driver for my network card. The results are the same with both network drivers, and I can't really try another audio driver since snd-emu10k1 is the only one that supports my card and I can't try my onboard sound without completely removing the audigy2--which I really don't want to do, since it was a pain getting everything hooked up to it. Has anyone ever seen this problem or anything similar? If so, is there a way to fix it? thx
