Please excuse the cross-post, I have subscribed to all three lists and will unsubscribe from as many as I can as soon as I find out where this should be directed.
Also this is a bit long and narrative ... I will post a proper report to the correct list when someone shows some interest :-). I would like to unsubscribe again but I am willing to communicate privately with anyone who is interested in solving this. I will probably go out and buy a PCI sound card for the short term. I recently enabled the sound chip on two boxen (different ASUS mobos with AC'97 sound on-board). One of them does not have sound ports (bought it this way deliberately) and I think it is the version which has only the AC'97 codec-chip and not the VIA sound chip. So sound devices can only pretend to work on this one and it does not seem to have problems. After a while (a few days) I was having an occasional problem with Mozilla where moving the mouse would cause either the screen to lock-up or the xserver to quit so either CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE was required or it was possible to log in again. I did not connect this with the sound right away but yesterday I looked through the debian-testing archive and noticed that Christoph Bier had reported similar problems so I have communicated with him privately already. Gradually the frequency of crashes increased until a couple of days ago the entire box locked up and had to be power cycled. This happened about 3 more times. Finally it happened with no activity at all (I just pressed the CTRL key to be able to read the screen to set the time on another box I was installing) so I had to investigate. Anyhow. I disabled the sound chip yesterday and the crashes stopped. This morning I tried to use the CD burner (box was running White-Box Linux up until about a month ago and neither the burner nor the sound worked on that - 2.4.x kernel). Totally hopeless so I upgraded from 2.6.8-1-k7 (aka 2.6.8-5) to 2.6.8-2-k7 (aka 2.6.8-13) and the burner worked flawlessly (sarge-businesscard.iso, rc3 :-). Bravely, I turned the sound back on and discovered that the CD burner had disappeared. Started up playing some .ogg files and reading mail with evolution and KABOOM. Took about 5 minutes to crash again. Turned the sound back OFF and rebooted and it has been fine ever since. The CD burner has returned. -- --gh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
