OT: weird sound and network problem

OT: weird sound and network problem

[jacob schmude]

Hi all
I recently installed Gentoo linux on my AMD Athlon64 system.
Everything, except for the sound and network, seems to work fine.
However, the sound and network are having a problem that I've never
seen before and have had no luck at all researching. The sound card is
an SB Audigy2 ZS Platinum PRO, the ethernet card is an onboard nVidia
NForce3 250GB controller. The problem is this: if I'm using the
soundcard for any extended length of time, both sound and network will
lock up without warning and with absolutely no messages in the logs
indicating a failure. The sound will repeat the last few seconds it
was playing before the lock up in a repeated loop, while the network
will not work at all--though there's no indication of failure in the
output of ifconfig eth0 or dmesg. Bringing eth0 down then back up
again, oddly enough, will correct both issues for a little while, but
it will happen again. Usually I can't use the sound for any longer
than ten minutes before this happens. I'm using the ALSA emu10k1
driver for the audigy, and I've tried both the free, kernel-provided
driver and NVidia's proprietary driver for my network card. The
results are the same with both network drivers, and I can't really try
another audio driver since snd-emu10k1 is the only one that supports
my card and I can't try my onboard sound without completely removing
the audigy2--which I really don't want to do, since it was a pain
getting everything hooked up to it. Has anyone ever seen this problem
or anything similar? If so, is there a way to fix it?

thx

Re: OT: weird sound and network problem

[Kenny Hitt]

Hi.

I can't really help much, but I have some questions.
Have you asked about your problem on the Gentoo lists?

Why will you need to remove your sound card to use the on board card?

          Kenny


On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 01:13:09PM -0700, jacob schmude wrote:
> Hi all
> I recently installed Gentoo linux on my AMD Athlon64 system.
> Everything, except for the sound and network, seems to work fine.
> However, the sound and network are having a problem that I've never
> seen before and have had no luck at all researching. The sound card is
> an SB Audigy2 ZS Platinum PRO, the ethernet card is an onboard nVidia
> NForce3 250GB controller. The problem is this: if I'm using the
> soundcard for any extended length of time, both sound and network will
> lock up without warning and with absolutely no messages in the logs
> indicating a failure. The sound will repeat the last few seconds it
> was playing before the lock up in a repeated loop, while the network
> will not work at all--though there's no indication of failure in the
> output of ifconfig eth0 or dmesg. Bringing eth0 down then back up
> again, oddly enough, will correct both issues for a little while, but
> it will happen again. Usually I can't use the sound for any longer
> than ten minutes before this happens. I'm using the ALSA emu10k1
> driver for the audigy, and I've tried both the free, kernel-provided
> driver and NVidia's proprietary driver for my network card. The
> results are the same with both network drivers, and I can't really try
> another audio driver since snd-emu10k1 is the only one that supports
> my card and I can't try my onboard sound without completely removing
> the audigy2--which I really don't want to do, since it was a pain
> getting everything hooked up to it. Has anyone ever seen this problem
> or anything similar? If so, is there a way to fix it?
> 
> thx
> 
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> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup

Re: OT: weird sound and network problem

[jacob schmude]

Hi
The reason I'd need to remove the audigy2 in order to use my onboard
sound is that this particular motherboard disables the onboard sound
when it detects another sound card in the system. I've done a thorough
search of the Gentoo forums and haven't found anything, I'm waiting
for the forum admin to get back to me with my username created so that
I can ask it, since I can't create the user myself as they use one of
those image verification systems. I doubt, however, that this problem
is Gentoo-specific.

On 5/27/05, Kenny Hitt <kenny@hittsjunk.net> wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I can't really help much, but I have some questions.
> Have you asked about your problem on the Gentoo lists?
> 
> Why will you need to remove your sound card to use the on board card?
> 
>          Kenny
> 
> 
> On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 01:13:09PM -0700, jacob schmude wrote:
> > Hi all
> > I recently installed Gentoo linux on my AMD Athlon64 system.
> > Everything, except for the sound and network, seems to work fine.
> > However, the sound and network are having a problem that I've never
> > seen before and have had no luck at all researching. The sound card is
> > an SB Audigy2 ZS Platinum PRO, the ethernet card is an onboard nVidia
> > NForce3 250GB controller. The problem is this: if I'm using the
> > soundcard for any extended length of time, both sound and network will
> > lock up without warning and with absolutely no messages in the logs
> > indicating a failure. The sound will repeat the last few seconds it
> > was playing before the lock up in a repeated loop, while the network
> > will not work at all--though there's no indication of failure in the
> > output of ifconfig eth0 or dmesg. Bringing eth0 down then back up
> > again, oddly enough, will correct both issues for a little while, but
> > it will happen again. Usually I can't use the sound for any longer
> > than ten minutes before this happens. I'm using the ALSA emu10k1
> > driver for the audigy, and I've tried both the free, kernel-provided
> > driver and NVidia's proprietary driver for my network card. The
> > results are the same with both network drivers, and I can't really try
> > another audio driver since snd-emu10k1 is the only one that supports
> > my card and I can't try my onboard sound without completely removing
> > the audigy2--which I really don't want to do, since it was a pain
> > getting everything hooked up to it. Has anyone ever seen this problem
> > or anything similar? If so, is there a way to fix it?
> >
> > thx
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Speakup mailing list
> > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
>

Re: OT: weird sound and network problem

[Charles Hallenbeck]

Jacob,

Have you examined the assignment of interrupts to your sound card and 
your ethernet card? Are they perhaps attempting to share an IRQ? Some 
cards are more sensitive than others to IRQ sharing. I have no 
information about your particular sound card, but it would be easy to 
check.

Chuck


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Re: OT: weird sound and network problem

[Alex Snow]

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is there some kind of resource conflict between the sound and network 
cards?
On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 02:45:35PM -0700, jacob schmude wrote:
> Hi
> The reason I'd need to remove the audigy2 in order to use my onboard
> sound is that this particular motherboard disables the onboard sound
> when it detects another sound card in the system. I've done a thorough
> search of the Gentoo forums and haven't found anything, I'm waiting
> for the forum admin to get back to me with my username created so that
> I can ask it, since I can't create the user myself as they use one of
> those image verification systems. I doubt, however, that this problem
> is Gentoo-specific.
> 
> On 5/27/05, Kenny Hitt <kenny@hittsjunk.net> wrote:
> > Hi.
> > 
> > I can't really help much, but I have some questions.
> > Have you asked about your problem on the Gentoo lists?
> > 
> > Why will you need to remove your sound card to use the on board card?
> > 
> >          Kenny
> > 
> > 
> > On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 01:13:09PM -0700, jacob schmude wrote:
> > > Hi all
> > > I recently installed Gentoo linux on my AMD Athlon64 system.
> > > Everything, except for the sound and network, seems to work fine.
> > > However, the sound and network are having a problem that I've never
> > > seen before and have had no luck at all researching. The sound card is
> > > an SB Audigy2 ZS Platinum PRO, the ethernet card is an onboard nVidia
> > > NForce3 250GB controller. The problem is this: if I'm using the
> > > soundcard for any extended length of time, both sound and network will
> > > lock up without warning and with absolutely no messages in the logs
> > > indicating a failure. The sound will repeat the last few seconds it
> > > was playing before the lock up in a repeated loop, while the network
> > > will not work at all--though there's no indication of failure in the
> > > output of ifconfig eth0 or dmesg. Bringing eth0 down then back up
> > > again, oddly enough, will correct both issues for a little while, but
> > > it will happen again. Usually I can't use the sound for any longer
> > > than ten minutes before this happens. I'm using the ALSA emu10k1
> > > driver for the audigy, and I've tried both the free, kernel-provided
> > > driver and NVidia's proprietary driver for my network card. The
> > > results are the same with both network drivers, and I can't really try
> > > another audio driver since snd-emu10k1 is the only one that supports
> > > my card and I can't try my onboard sound without completely removing
> > > the audigy2--which I really don't want to do, since it was a pain
> > > getting everything hooked up to it. Has anyone ever seen this problem
> > > or anything similar? If so, is there a way to fix it?
> > >
> > > thx
> > >
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > Speakup mailing list
> > > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> >
> 
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