Re: Sound on PCG-GRX670

On 03-08-03 23:16 -0700, Mark Kaufer wrote:
> From the bit of googling I've done, it looks like I'm not the only one
> who's experiencing strange things w/ the audio on my VAIO.
> 
> I've got a GRX670 and the sound will only play in small, second long bits.
>  The really odd thing is that it will play normally only when the USB
> mouse is moved constantly.
> 
> With 'lshw', I've been able to determine that a lot of devices are using
> the same IRQ:
> 
> # lshw |grep -i irq |sort |uniq
>                 configuration: driver=cardbus irq=3
>                 configuration: driver=e100 irq=9
>                 configuration: driver=radeonfb irq=9
>              configuration: driver=intel810_audio irq=9
>              configuration: driver=usb-uhci irq=9
> 
> So I can see why the audio may be affected by the use of a USB device and
> verified that on the XP side, the same configuration is set.
> 
> I'm using 2.4.21, the "i810_audio" and "ac97_codec" kernel drivers loaded
> as modules, but has anyone been able to get audio on their similar VAIO
> model working properly?
> 

Sounds like the common interrupt routing problem that is experienced by
non-ACPIied kernels.  Do you have ACPI compiled into your kernel?  What
distro are you using?

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