[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#741554: Bug#741554: alsa-base: Invalid PCM pointer with CMI8738

[Elimar Riesebieter]

* Andoru <andoru.blah at gmail.com> [2014-03-13 20:50 +0200]:

> Package: alsa-base
> Version: 1.0.25+3
> Severity: important
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 

> I've been having this problem on CrunchBang 11 "Waldorf" which is
> based off Debian Wheezy (I think) I've had to restart the PC 4
> times because of this. Every time I try to listen to something, at
> random points it "hiccups" (basically keeps repeating the last few
> ms of what I was listening, probably what was on the buffer) and
> the whole OS becomes unresponsive, CPU raises at around 95-100% at
> which point I can't do anything but turn the PC off. The GUI
> (TTY7) becomes very unresponsive (for example when I move a window
> from one place to another, it slowly creeps to the destination.
> Also TTYs 1-6 are unusuable as they get flooded with this error:
> [XXXXX.XXXXXX] cmipci: invalid PCM pointer: 0xffff

According to [0] it should help to switch the pcm in pulse?

[0] http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=202&t=57132

Elimar
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