I'm getting freezes in Mandrake whenever I play MPEGs, but given the below log, I suspect the culprit is something to do with the sound. I'm using the Sourceforge Linux Aureal Drivers. I have a Storm Platinum. Anyone have any thoughts? Thanx. ------------------ Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant syslog: syslogd startup succeeded Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant syslog: klogd startup succeeded Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: klogd 1.4-0, log source = /proc/kmsg started. Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: Loaded 7650 symbols from /boot/System.map-2.2.17-21mdk. Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: Symbols match kernel version 2.2.17. Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: Loaded 131 symbols from 9 modules. Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: Linux version 2.2.17-21mdk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.95.3 19991030 (prerelease)) #1 Thu Oct 5 13:16:08 CEST 2000 Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: Detected 651171 kHz processor. Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: ide_setup: hdd=ide-scsi Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: Console: colour dummy device 80x25 Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: Calibrating delay loop... 1297.61 BogoMIPS Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: Memory: 127600k/131008k available (1136k kernel code, 424k reserved, 1720k data, 128k init, 0k bigmem) Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: Dentry hash table entries: 16384 (order 5, 128k) Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: Buffer cache hash table entries: 131072 (order 7, 512k) Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: Page cache hash table entries: 32768 (order 5, 128k) Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K L1 D Cache: 64K Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: CPU: L2 Cache: 512K Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) Processor stepping 01 Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting. Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: mtrr: v1.35a (19990819) Richard Gooch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb450, last bus=1 Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: PCI: Using configuration type 1 Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: PCI: Probing PCI hardware Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2 Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0. Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 131072 bhash 65536) Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: Initializing RT netlink socket Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: Starting kswapd v 1.5 Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: vesafb: framebuffer at 0xd0000000, mapped to 0xc8009000, size 32768k Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: vesafb: mode is 800x600x16, linelength=1600, pages=3 Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:0a15 Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: vesafb: scrolling: redraw Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: vesafb: directcolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0 Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 100x37 Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: Detected PS/2 Mouse Port. Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: Serial driver version 4.27 with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ enabled Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.13) Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: Real Time Clock Driver v1.09 Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.30 Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39 Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: VP_IDE: chipset revision 16 Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: VP_IDE: not 100%% native mode: will probe irqs later Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: VT 8371 Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: Chipset Core ATA-66 Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: Split FIFO Configuration: 8 Primary buffers, threshold = 1/2 Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: 8 Second. buffers, threshold = 1/2 Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd000-0xd007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: ide0: VIA Bus-Master (U)DMA Timing Config Success Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd008-0xd00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: ide1: VIA Bus-Master (U)DMA Timing Config Success Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: hda: ST330630A, ATA DISK drive Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: hdb: Pioneer DVD-ROM ATAPIModel DVD-114 0124, ATAPI CDROM drive Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: hdc: ST317221A, ATA DISK drive Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: hdd: RICOH MP6200A, ATAPI CDROM drive Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: hda: ST330630A, 29188MB w/2048kB Cache, CHS=3720/255/63 Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: hdc: ST317221A, 16446MB w/512kB Cache, CHS=33416/16/63 Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: hdb: ATAPI DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.11 Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MAX_REAL=12 Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: raid5: measuring checksumming speed Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: raid5: MMX detected, trying high-speed MMX checksum routines Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: pII_mmx : 1511.808 MB/sec Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: p5_mmx : 1897.380 MB/sec Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: 8regs : 875.157 MB/sec Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: 32regs : 773.430 MB/sec Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: using fastest function: p5_mmx (1897.380 MB/sec) Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: scsi : 0 hosts. Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: scsi : detected total. Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: md.c: sizeof(mdp_super_t) = 4096 Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: Partition check: Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: hda: [DM6:DDO] [remap +63] [1027/255/63] hda1 hda2 < hda5 > Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: hdc: [PTBL] [1027/255/63] hdc1 hdc2 < hdc5 hdc6 > hdc3 Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: autodetecting RAID arrays Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: autorun ... Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: ... autorun DONE. Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: Freeing unused kernel memory: 128k freed Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: Adding Swap: 248968k swap-space (priority -1) Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: scsi : 1 host. Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: Vendor: RICOH Model: MP6200A Rev: 1.00 Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 6x/6x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: au88xx: Loading... Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: au88xx: Scanning for device VENDOR=0x12eb, ID=0x2 Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: au88xx: Found vortex PCI device: Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: au88xx: id=2 Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: au88xx: bar0=0xdf000000 Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: au88xx: irq=10 Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: au88xx: Add device, audio=3, mixer=0, midi=2 Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: eth0: 8139too FastEthernet 0.9.9-2.2 Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: eth0: Linux-2.2 bug reports to Jens David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: eth0: RealTek RTL8139 Fast Ethernet board found at 0xca0ae000, IRQ 11 Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant kernel: eth0: Chip is 'RTL-8139C' - MAC address '00:a0:0c:c7:b2:f8'. Dec 24 08:56:40 revenant identd: identd startup succeeded Dec 24 08:56:21 revenant rc.sysinit: Mounting proc filesystem succeeded Dec 24 08:56:21 revenant rc.sysinit: Setting default font succeeded Dec 24 08:56:21 revenant rc.sysinit: Booting Aurora... succeeded Dec 24 08:56:21 revenant rc.sysinit: Configuring kernel parameters: succeeded Dec 24 08:56:21 revenant date: Sun Dec 24 08:56:20 EST 2000 Dec 24 08:56:21 revenant rc.sysinit: Setting clock (localtime): Sun Dec 24 08:56:20 EST 2000 succeeded Dec 24 08:56:21 revenant rc.sysinit: Loading default keymap succeeded Dec 24 08:56:21 revenant rc.sysinit: Activating swap partitions: succeeded Dec 24 08:56:21 revenant rc.sysinit: Setting hostname revenant.home: succeeded Dec 24 08:56:21 revenant fsck: /dev/hdc1: clean, 130317/319360 files, 464219/638575 blocks Dec 24 08:56:21 revenant rc.sysinit: Checking root filesystem succeeded Dec 24 08:56:21 revenant rc.sysinit: Remounting root filesystem in read-write mode: succeeded Dec 24 08:56:22 revenant rc.sysinit: Finding module dependencies succeeded Dec 24 08:56:22 revenant : Loading module: scsi_hostadapter Dec 24 08:56:23 revenant fsck: /dev/hdc6: clean, 181/671744 files, 21344/1343427 blocks Dec 24 08:56:23 revenant rc.sysinit: Checking filesystems succeeded Dec 24 08:56:24 revenant rc.sysinit: Mounting local filesystems succeeded Dec 24 08:56:24 revenant rc.sysinit: Checking loopback filesystems succeeded Dec 24 08:56:24 revenant rc.sysinit: Mounting loopback filesystems: succeeded Dec 24 08:56:25 revenant rc.sysinit: Turning on user and group quotas for local filesystems: succeeded Dec 24 08:56:25 revenant rc.sysinit: Enabling swap space: succeeded Dec 24 08:56:27 revenant mandrake_everytime: Building Window Manager Sessions succeeded Dec 24 08:56:27 revenant init: Entering runlevel: 5 Dec 24 08:56:29 revenant harddrake: succeeded Dec 24 08:56:35 revenant kudzu: succeeded Dec 24 08:56:35 revenant sound: Loading sound module (au8830) succeeded Dec 24 08:56:35 revenant sound: Loading midi module (au8830) succeeded Dec 24 08:56:36 revenant aumix: vol set to 80, 80, P Dec 24 08:56:36 revenant aumix: pcm set to 80, 80 Dec 24 08:56:36 revenant aumix: speaker set to 80, 0 Dec 24 08:56:36 revenant aumix: line set to 80, 80, P Dec 24 08:56:36 revenant aumix: mic set to 80, 0, R Dec 24 08:56:36 revenant aumix: cd set to 80, 80, P Dec 24 08:56:36 revenant aumix: rec set to 80, 80 Dec 24 08:56:36 revenant aumix: ogain set to 80, 0 Dec 24 08:56:36 revenant aumix: line1 set to 80, 80, P Dec 24 08:56:36 revenant aumix: phin set to 80, 0, P Dec 24 08:56:36 revenant aumix: video set to 80, 80, P Dec 24 08:56:36 revenant sound: Loading mixer settings succeeded Dec 24 08:56:36 revenant network: Setting network parameters: succeeded Dec 24 08:56:37 revenant ifup: SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable Dec 24 08:56:37 revenant network: Bringing up interface lo: succeeded Dec 24 08:56:37 revenant network: Enabling IPv4 packet forwarding succeeded Dec 24 08:56:37 revenant ifup: Determining IP information for eth0 via dhcpcd... Dec 24 08:56:37 revenant ifup: done. Dec 24 08:56:37 revenant network: Bringing up interface eth0: succeeded Dec 24 08:56:38 revenant portmap: portmap startup succeeded Dec 24 08:56:38 revenant automount[440]: starting automounter version 4.0.0, path = /misc, maptype = file, mapname = /etc/auto.misc Dec 24 08:56:38 revenant automount[453]: starting automounter version 4.0.0, path = /net, maptype = yp, mapname = auto.net Dec 24 08:56:38 revenant autofs: autofs startup succeeded Dec 24 08:56:38 revenant automount[440]: using timeout 60 seconds; freq 15 secs Dec 24 08:56:38 revenant random: Initializing random number generator: succeeded Dec 24 08:56:38 revenant automount[453]: using timeout 60 seconds; freq 15 secs Dec 24 08:56:39 revenant netfs: Mounting other filesystems: succeeded Dec 24 08:56:41 revenant atd: atd startup succeeded Dec 24 08:56:41 revenant crond[555]: (CRON) STARTUP (fork ok) Dec 24 08:56:42 revenant crond: crond startup succeeded Dec 24 08:56:42 revenant xinetd[571]: chargen disabled, removing Dec 24 08:56:42 revenant xinetd[571]: time disabled, removing Dec 24 08:56:42 revenant xinetd[571]: time disabled, removing Dec 24 08:56:42 revenant xinetd[571]: chargen-udp disabled, removing Dec 24 08:56:42 revenant xinetd[571]: linuxconf disabled, removing Dec 24 08:56:42 revenant xinetd[571]: echo-udp disabled, removing Dec 24 08:56:42 revenant xinetd[571]: echo disabled, removing Dec 24 08:56:42 revenant xinetd[571]: daytime-udp disabled, removing Dec 24 08:56:42 revenant xinetd[571]: daytime disabled, removing Dec 24 08:56:42 revenant xinetd[571]: xinetd Version 2.1.8.9pre12 started with Dec 24 08:56:42 revenant xinetd[571]: libwrap Dec 24 08:56:42 revenant xinetd[571]: options compiled in. Dec 24 08:56:42 revenant xinetd[571]: Started working: 1 available service Dec 24 08:56:45 revenant xinetd: xinetd startup succeeded Dec 24 08:56:45 revenant cups: cupsd startup succeeded Dec 24 08:56:46 revenant lpd: lpd startup succeeded Dec 24 08:56:46 revenant lpd[597]: restarted Dec 24 08:56:46 revenant nfslock: rpc.lockd startup succeeded Dec 24 08:56:47 revenant nfslock: rpc.statd startup succeeded Dec 24 08:56:47 revenant loadkeys: Loading /usr/lib/kbd/keymaps/i386/dvorak/pc-dvorak-latin1.kmap.gz Dec 24 08:56:48 revenant keytable: Loading keymap: pc-dvorak-latin1 succeeded Dec 24 08:56:48 revenant loadkeys: Loading /usr/lib/kbd/keymaps/include/compose.latin1.inc.gz Dec 24 08:56:48 revenant keytable: Loading compose keys: compose.latin1.inc succeeded Dec 24 08:56:48 revenant rpc.statd[622]: gethostbyname error for revenant.home Dec 24 08:56:48 revenant keytable: succeeded Dec 24 08:56:49 revenant postfix: Starting postfix: Dec 24 08:56:53 revenant postfix: postfix Dec 24 08:56:53 revenant rc: Starting postfix: succeeded Dec 24 08:56:53 revenant gpm: gpm startup succeeded Dec 24 08:56:55 revenant PAM_unix[704]: (system-auth) session opened for user root by (uid=0) Dec 24 08:56:56 revenant PAM_unix[704]: (system-auth) session closed for user root Dec 24 08:56:56 revenant drakfont: Checking drakfont fonts succeeded Dec 24 08:56:57 revenant start: Starting Webmin server in /usr/share/webmin Dec 24 08:56:57 revenant webmin: Starting Webmin succeeded Dec 24 08:56:58 revenant PAM_unix[749]: (system-auth) session opened for user xfs by (uid=0) Dec 24 08:57:00 revenant PAM_unix[749]: (system-auth) session closed for user xfs Dec 24 08:57:00 revenant xfs: xfs startup succeeded Dec 24 08:57:01 revenant anacron: anacron startup succeeded Dec 24 08:57:01 revenant anacron[779]: Anacron 2.3 started on 2000-12-24 Dec 24 08:57:01 revenant anacron[779]: Normal exit (0 jobs run) Dec 24 08:57:01 revenant rc: Starting kheader: succeeded Dec 24 08:57:06 revenant netconf: Checking kernel configuration Dec 24 08:57:06 revenant linuxconf: Running Linuxconf hooks: succeeded Dec 24 08:57:07 revenant kernel: parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [SPP,ECP,ECPPS2] Dec 24 08:57:07 revenant kernel: parport0: detected irq 7; use procfs to enable interrupt-driven operation. Dec 24 08:57:07 revenant kernel: parport0: no IEEE-1284 device present. Dec 24 08:57:07 revenant kernel: lp0: using parport0 (polling). Dec 24 08:57:07 revenant modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-4 Dec 24 08:57:09 revenant last message repeated 67 times Dec 24 08:57:10 revenant modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-180 Dec 24 08:57:11 revenant last message repeated 16 times Dec 24 08:57:34 revenant PAM_unix[934]: (system-auth) session opened for user revenant by (uid=0) Dec 24 08:57:35 revenant modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module binfmt-0000 Dec 24 08:57:35 revenant modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module binfmt-0000 Dec 24 08:57:41 revenant modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-slot-1 Dec 24 08:57:41 revenant modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-1-0 Dec 24 08:57:41 revenant modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-slot-1 Dec 24 08:57:41 revenant modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-1-0 Dec 24 08:59:55 revenant automount[1090]: lookup(file): lookup for .directory failed Dec 24 08:59:55 revenant automount[1091]: lookup(yp): lookup for .directory failed: Request arguments bad Dec 24 09:00:00 revenant CROND[1093]: (root) CMD ( /sbin/rmmod -as) Dec 24 09:00:05 revenant kernel: cdrom: open failed. Dec 24 09:00:10 revenant kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0 Dec 24 09:01:00 revenant CROND[1108]: (root) CMD (run-parts /etc/cron.hourly) Dec 24 09:02:05 revenant PAM_unix[1116]: (system-auth) session opened for user root by (uid=501)