Darrel Lawrence wrote:
> I have a Soundblaster Live 5.1 sound card. When I play a cd or a music
> file, my network response time becomes non-existent. Basically I get no
> response, can't surf the net or get email. As soon as I stop the music
> the response time goes right back to normal. I can surf the net, get
> email, etc. If I remove the sound card, then enable and use the onboard
> audio, everything works normally. I used a couple of different music
> players, moved the sound card around to different pci slots, disabled
> the parallel port and the usb ports to get the sound card on it's own
> irq (not shared) and nothing made any difference. If that sound card is
> installed and I play any music my internet response time slows to a crawl.
>
> I am running Ubuntu 7.04 on an AMD 1.33 processor. The network card is
> a Linksys WMP11.
>
> I am wondering if anybody out there has any other ideas I might try or
> possibly somebody has encountered this problem or a similar problem in
> the past.
This sounds like a shared interrupt problem. The sound card and the ethernet
card are either using the same interrupt or the same memory space. This isn't
supposed to happen with PCI but it looks like it is in your case. I'll leave
it to someone better with hardware than I to come up with a fix.
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