On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 03:35, Adeodato Simó wrote: > * Ross Boylan [Thu, 12 Feb 2004 15:11:25 -0800]: > > > A few seconds after KDE starts up I get a pop up window with "Error > > "Sound server fatal error: > > cpu overload, aborting" > > I got one of these about two weeks ago. > > > Some clues: > > > The problem started coincident with upgrading to a new kernel (2.4.24, > > Debianized) with a new alsa-source (1.0.1-1). I also patches for > > evms, device-mapper, i2c, and lm-sensors. > > Yep, the culprit seems to be alsa 1.0.1. I did the very same > upgrade. > > > I recall reading on debian-kde there were some issues with alsa > > support, but I can't find that now. In the past it's worked fine, > > though it may have been using the OSS compatibility layer. > > I found that the problem, actually, was the OSS compatibility layer. > If you select in Control Panel -> ... -> Sound system -> Audio > device OSS or Autodetect, you get the error. If you select ALSA > there, if just works fine. > > Seems like if there are some glitches with ALSA 1.0.1 OSS emulation, > or at least when mixed with arts. > > Really can't say anything about the causes but just that ALSA as the > audio device solved the problem for me. > > Cheers. Thanks.
I can confirm this fix works for me too. Setting Sound I/O to "Autodetect" or "OSS" produces the error (and does really use a lot of CPU til it's killed).