So, I am using an ideq 200N nForce2 chipset, with Realtek ALC650 sound.
I am having the same problem with the 2.6.6.x kernels, and I am getting them from a couple of yum repositories. This includes the latest 435.2.1 and 435.2.3 kernels.
My lspci follows:
[root@localhost root]# /sbin/lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AGP (different version?) (rev a2)
00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 1 (rev a2)
00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 4 (rev a2)
00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 3 (rev a2)
00:00.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 2 (rev a2)
00:00.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 5 (rev a2)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 ISA Bridge (rev a3)
00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation nForce2 SMBus (MCP) (rev a2)
00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (rev a3)
00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (rev a3)
00:02.2 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (rev a3)
00:04.0 Ethernet controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Ethernet Controller (rev a1)
00:05.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce MultiMedia audio [Via VT82C686B] (rev a2)
00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AC97 Audio Controler (MCP) (rev a1)
00:08.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 External PCI Bridge (rev a3)
00:09.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation nForce2 IDE (rev a2)
00:0d.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): nVidia Corporation nForce2 FireWire (IEEE 1394) Controller (rev a3)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AGP (rev a2)
01:08.0 RAID bus controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA VT6420 SATA RAID Controller (rev 50)
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX - nForce GPU] (rev a3)
[root@localhost root]# more /etc/modprobe.conf
alias eth0 forcedeth
alias scsi_hostadapter sata_via
alias usb-controller ehci-hcd
alias usb-controller1 ohci-hcd
alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
install snd-intel8x0 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-intel8x0 && /usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
remove snd-intel8x0 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-intel8x0
alias net-pf-10 off
alias char-major-195* nvidia
dmesg snippet:
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:06.0 to 64 intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 49409 usecs intel8x0: clocking to 47432
Hard for me to tell from the kernel.org site what changed in 2.6.6, and it could be some patches from 2.6.7 that were imported into the fedora kernels. Have not yet tried SuSE or Debian on this box yet to see if the 2.6.6* works there. I have not yet tried a standard kernel build, either. I do know that the stock 2.6.5-1.358 works fine, and FC1 with the 2.4.x kernels works fine.
The problem is a bit different depending on application, but cat sound.wav > /dev/dsp gives a few seconds of sound, then it repeats four times. Xmms starts about 1 second, the repeats about 3 times. This is using alsa. Using OSS in xmms, gives a bit longer intial clip (just a half second more or so), but does not repeat.
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