<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"><HTML DIR=ltr><HEAD><META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"></HEAD><BODY><DIV><FONT face='Arial' color=#000000 size=2>Argh...</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>My mythbox (nForce1, onboard video & sound) was
working perfectly until 0.15... at 0.15 sometimes the sound would flake out
(funny pitches, volume would jump around), but it was kinda OK (and it seemed to
happen mostly when the other parts of the PC went berserk).</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Now with 0.16 (and it seems to be getting more and
more often), the sound will quit, sometimes between shows, sometimes in the
middle of shows; it doesn't even matter if you're recording only or doing
playback&recording or just playback (though just playback seems to
provoke the beastie less).</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>When it happens, I get the message "only read -1
bytes from /dev/dsp" on the mythbackend log (I put a tail on the file and
auto-reboot... but today it has been rebooting every 5 minutes or so it
seems).</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>My system:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> MSI odd-brand nForce1 board with 1 PCI slot
(had to disable ACPI to get it to cooperate)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> Onboard nForce sound/video/net, using
alsa-0.9.0, nvidia drivers, and nvnet -- not trying SPDIF yet...</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> Gentoo linux Linux version 2.4.20-gaming-r3
kernel compiled w/GCC 3.2.3</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> /mnt/storage 100GB XFS partition, now
constanly 90-98% full...</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I've tried:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> Using nvidia's sound module (got lost trying
to get devfs to make the devices)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> Using alsa:default for the mythfrontend
(same problem)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> Using alsa:default for mythbackend(couldn't
get it to take...)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> Using "Aggressive Soundcard Buffering"--
seemed to make the problem worse</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Questions:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> 1. Am I just making a stupid mistake? (where
please ;)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> 2. Is there a good way to debug these kinds
of things (not a crash... just sound quits)?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>-Thor Johnson</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>PS... anyone know how to get outlook web access to
do plain text?</FONT></DIV>
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