On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 11:50:00AM +0200, Marcin 'Morgoth' Kurek wrote: > Hell[o], > > Some time ago a weird problem hit me from nowhere and generaly I have no > ideas what I can do about it. > > The problem is related to my soundcard. Now I use SBAudigy card and ALSA > 1.0.5a on Pegasos 2 machine with G4 1GHz CPU. > > I like to listen mp3 files when working, but now it is impossible. After > random amount of time (Sometimes 15 min, sometimes 2h) music stops without > any reason and XMMS program displays requester telling me that I > should chceck is my card is propetly plugged in to the slot or is any > program use sound card now (This is impossible because only XMMS is running) > After such situation I can't find any errors or warnings in the log files, > completly nothing. Restarting alsa also not help only reboot.
This sounds like you somehow hosed the sound card, maybe the driver is not really ppc friendly ? Did anyone already try an audigy card on ppc hardware ? > This is realy anonying to reboot after 1-2h of work :/ > > No errors and random nature of this problems realy makes hard for me to fix > it or just say what is wrong. > > First I think it's a hotplug (I upgraded it short time before this problem > apear) but not, second idea was a kernel but this was also missed shoot > because I have it on 2.6.5 and 2.6.7 kernels too. > > Anyone can give me any hints ? If more informations are required just tell > me. I strongly suspect a kernel driver problem. Did the G4 errata fix have some influence on your problem ? Friendly, Sven Luther
