Re: PROBLEM: Maestro sound module locks up the computer

[Alan Cox]

On Sul, 2003-04-06 at 20:37, Fredrik Jagenheim wrote:
> 8 seconds; e.g. say the clock is '16:40:10'. After 6 seconds the clock is, not
> surprisingly, '16:40:16'; but after 8 seconds it's '16:40:10' again. I'm not
> sure it's exactly 8 seconds though, as I've only had the chance of verifying
> this once.

That kind of weirdness is useful info

> I've narrowed it down (I think) to the maestro driver as these lockups only
> happen when I play music. It doesn't matter if I use mplayer from console, or
> xmms from X, the lockups still happen. These lockups doesn't happen if I don't
> play music, so...
> 
> This started to happen a couple of months ago.

What did you change at the time it happened - any new kernels etc ?

> More information can be obtained if you ask me. It's very easy to reproduce the
> problem (as it happens several times a day), so I can test various hacks if
> you have any.

Does it occur if you turn off all ACPI and APM power management support
in the kernel and in the BIOS ?