Hi, I'm having the same problem you describe in mpg123. Everything worked well with Alsa and ymfpci but now when I got a Hoontech DSP2000 I have exactly the same problems as you.
However, to me it seems like disc activity or high processor load doesn't trigger the problem. Changing from an empty virtual desktop to a busy one does as does closing big windows. > I put the card in a slot that doesn't share its IRQ with > anything else and now I can see irq10 in /proc/interrupts reserved > for it. I also gave the sound card an unique IRQ hoping for an improvement but nothing changed. I use linux-2.4.18 and alsa-0.9.0beta12. rh ps Here is my /proc/interrupts CPU0 0: 89897193 XT-PIC timer 1: 9000 XT-PIC keyboard 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 5: 19153841 XT-PIC ICE1712 11: 905558 XT-PIC eth0 12: 186449 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse 14: 192 XT-PIC ide0 15: 24580279 XT-PIC sym53c8xx NMI: 0 LOC: 89899514 ERR: 16069 MIS: 0 and here is my /proc/pci PCI devices found: Bus 0, device 0, function 0: Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133] (rev 3). Master Capable. Latency=8. Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe0000000 [0xe3ffffff]. Bus 0, device 1, function 0: PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133 AGP] (rev 0). Master Capable. No bursts. Min Gnt=12. Bus 0, device 7, function 0: ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] (rev 64). Bus 0, device 7, function 1: IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. Bus Master IDE (rev 6). Master Capable. Latency=32. I/O at 0xc000 [0xc00f]. Bus 0, device 7, function 4: Bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev 64). IRQ 7. Bus 0, device 8, function 0: Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX [Fast Etherlink] (rev 116). IRQ 11. Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=10.Max Lat=10. I/O at 0xcc00 [0xcc7f]. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xea000000 [0xea00007f]. Bus 0, device 9, function 0: Multimedia audio controller: IC Ensemble Inc ICE1712 [Envy24] (rev 2). IRQ 5. Master Capable. Latency=32. I/O at 0xd000 [0xd01f]. I/O at 0xd400 [0xd40f]. I/O at 0xd800 [0xd80f]. I/O at 0xdc00 [0xdc3f]. Bus 0, device 15, function 0: SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic (formerly NCR) 53c895 (rev 1). IRQ 15. Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=30.Max Lat=64. I/O at 0xe000 [0xe0ff]. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xea001000 [0xea0010ff]. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xea002000 [0xea002fff]. Bus 1, device 0, function 0: VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G400 AGP (rev 130). IRQ 10. Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=16.Max Lat=32. Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe4000000 [0xe5ffffff]. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe6000000 [0xe6003fff]. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe7000000 [0xe77fffff]. _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user