Has anyone met the following phenomena? At random times, while xmms
plays, the machine freezes completely (nothing helps, not even the magic
keys, only "any key"). However, these random times have in themselves a
strange order. They happen exactly when the music changes radically.
And, when the machine freezes, the music stops for 90% of the cases.
So, in result, one gets dozens of hillarious moments, specially in cases
when one listens to something like the 5th Concert of Bethooven. Just
imagine ta-ta-tata, and your machine gets silent. Everyone around
already knows that I got to Antarctida again.
What's strange is that other apps that use sound do not seem to have any
problems. Quake3, RealPlayer, mpg123, they all work without problems.
Even after 6 hours of Quake the machine keeps going. arts has been
working for two monthes and it didn't say a hissle. Now I put xmms
working and in less than half-hour I get satisfaction guaranteed and
another monumental laugh all over the room.
This has been happening with several xmms's up to 1.2.5-2. The sound
card is an old good Gravis Ultrasound Max under alsa drivers and
kernel-2.4.8 (since 2.4.3 I get the same effect). The machine is an BP6
with two Cellerons.
Any ideas?
Ektanoor
