PC freezes totally when playing audio with xine

Hi,

I hope this is the right list for my issue. I could find no other place to 
post bug reports.

I'm using xine on a PC with Via Epia EN12000EG mainboard. Whenever I use the 
xine engine, the computer freezes totally. If I select "Stereo 2.0" the sound 
stutters for about 1 second, then mutes and the computer is totally 
unresponsible. Can't even ssh in. If  "Passthrough" is selected, the sound 
continues in a loop of about 200ms after the freeze.
Sometimes the freeze occures directly after hitting the play button, sometimes 
the music plays fine for several hours before the freeze occures (though this 
does not happen often).

I have no problems regarding freezes when using other audio engines (such as 
Helix).

The freezes occure both with the builtin via soundcard, and with an M-Audio 
Transit usb soundcard, and both with amarok and kaffeine (though amarok is 
generally "faster" in freezing my PC, but, as I have said, works well with 
Helix engine).

I have tried compiling alsa into the kernel (both as module and compiled in, 
tried different kernels, starting at about 2.6.20), and also tried to compile 
the alsa modules which are downloadable from alsa (tried 1.0.15, 1.0.16 and 
svn build).

Here are my specs:
xine-lib: tried 1.1.8, 1.1.10,  1.1.10.1 and earlier versions.

Mainboard: Via Epia EN12000EG
CPU:
  model name      : VIA Esther processor 1200MHz,
  flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge cmov 
pat clflush acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 tm pni est tm2 rng rng_en ace ace_en ace2 
ace2_en phe phe_en pmm pmm_en

CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -msse -msse2 -msse3 -mmmx -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"

If you need more information, please tell me.
Any help and suggestions appreciated!

Yours, Marius

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