This is a Toshiba Satellite 1800, with said sound card, running RH 8.0 +
updates. When starting xmms the system (semi-)hangs: It seems to work for a
fraction of a second and stops for seconds at a time. No shift-lock, mouse,
nothing. Only way out was to turn it off (perhaps with more patience I
could've got in to reboot cleanly, but...). /var/logg/messages ends with:
Jan 24 17:06:29 eeyore kernel: ac97_codec: AC97 codec, id: 0x0000:0x0000 (Unknown)
Jan 24 17:06:29 eeyore kernel: ali_ac97_read :try clear busy flag
Jan 24 17:06:29 eeyore kernel: ali_ac97_set :try clear busy flag!!
Jan 24 17:06:29 eeyore kernel: ali_ac97_read :try clear busy flag
Jan 24 17:06:29 eeyore kernel: ali_ac97_set :try clear busy flag!!
Jan 24 17:06:29 eeyore last message repeated 10 times
The "try clear busy flag" repeats ad nauseam before too.
Obviously no sound at all.
Hadn't this been fixed in -ac?
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