Alsa freezes computer when sound occurs.

geekzen · 04-06-2004, 05:19 PM

I have a problem with sound. I dont know what happend, (Yesterday it works) but now, whenever i use my soundcard, my computer freezes. I play an mp3 in XMMS, and boom... frozen. The first time this happened was when i started rhythmbox. I think it was using the OSS plugin instead of the ALSA plugin. I'm certain that XMMS was using ALSA after, and yet it has started crahing.

This used to happen, ad i didnt get it resolved last time either (I ended up reinstalling the system for totally diffrent reasons)

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ht=alsa+freeze

That thread seems simmilar. All i get is a crackling and hissing in the speekers. Garbled and cominng slowly and in bursts.

I use a CS4237B, with the Alsa module cs4236.

geekzen · 04-07-2004, 06:27 PM

This seems to have been stopped by a simple "sudo /etc/init.d/alsa restart"

I just dont understand why it fails at boot time. Makes no sense. Meh.