I have the same problem here. My system freezes every once in a while. I'm using ALSA 0.9.5 and my card is a TB Santa Cruz (CS-4630). I've tried ALSA versions 0.9.2-0.9.5 with no luck. I built the driver with no OSS support to see if that was the problem. Then I used the ALSA plugin in XMMS but the system froze, too, so (at least for me) I think it's not a problem with snd-pcm-oss.
I have a geForce FX 5200 card, and I'm using nVidia drivers 43.69, I tried 'Option "NvAGP" "0"' in my XF86Config file but no luck. I read that the problem also appears in command-line, and although I haven't checked it I suppose it's not a problem with X. I'll try to reproduce the problem in command-line just to be sure. I use no screensavers, BTW. Has anyone with non-nvidia cards experienced this problem, anyway? I noticed that my card was sharing IRQ 5 with my onboard USB controller. Everything else has its own IRQ, videocard included. My board is an ABIT KT7-Raid. In Windows the USB controller and the soundcard also share the same IRQ and there are no problems, but I disabled the USB support in BIOS and checked that the soundcard had an unique IRQ. I played some music and the system froze again. I also tried "xset s 0 0 dpms 0 0 0" (disabling power management?) but doesn't help. I'm quite desperate. I replaced a Terratec DMX XFire 1024 with my current Santa Cruz just to get rid of the problem. My Windows system froze once playing music with that card. With that and the Linux problem I thought the card was damaged or something, so I bought the Santa Cruz. When I saw the problem again I troughfully tested my Windows system and I couldn't find any problem this time. That made me think of a driver issue, so I built the OSS module for my card et voilá! No more freezes. The free version of this drivers have limitations, and I don't want to pay 35$ just to be able to play 4 streams at a time. I bought a hardware-mixing capable card for that matter, but I couldn't know at that time how much problems it would make. Is there any hope for this to be solved? Has anyone found a solution? Last response to this thread dates from April 3rd, so I hope someone out there can help. Thanks in advance. > Hi there, > I have a problem with my soundcard. I have a "TERRATEC - DMX > XFire 1024" (chip CS4624-CQ). > The problem is that my system hangs up after an undefined > time but only when the soundcard is in use e.g. when I hear > music. It happens randoml > y sometimes after 5 minutes or it could also happen after 3 > hours. More bad is that the whole system hangs up - mouse, > keyboard and so on - so > that the only thing is I can do is to turn off my computer. > All what remains is a terrible sound like a metallic buzz. > Thereby the alsa-0.9 series drivers are really good because > it supports the "Digital in/out" "3D" and so on and I can > open the /dev/dsp more th > an one times in opposite to the kernel driver (2.4.20) or > alsa-0.5 drivers. > Else I have to use the kernel driver (or alsa-0.5) but > there is no support for the 3 features I mentioned above, > and I've also trouble to use > the gameport (but none of them hang up my system). > I always tried the newest releases and as I was seen that > the 0.9 stable version was out I was really hopefull but my > system hangs up again aft > er 20 minutes :( > I also tried some module parameters but without succes. I > think that the "snd-pcm-oss" module is the problem but I > have to load this module bec > ause otherwhise my soundcard not works. > I hope anybody could help me I'm on despair of... ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: VM Ware With VMware you can run multiple operating systems on a single machine. WITHOUT REBOOTING! Mix Linux / Windows / Novell virtual machines at the same time. Free trial click here: http://www.vmware.com/wl/offer/345/0 _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
