The kind of hanging that has been decribed in this thread looks like
the device is not gettng interrupts.
Perhaps there's some interrupt sharing problem?

    -- Lennart


"Jared D. McNeill" wrote:

> On Sun, 1 Jul 2001, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > I have the same problem when listening live audio from realplayer.
> > I don't know if this is realplayer or the driver's fault.
> > This seems to happen under heavy disk I/O only. Maybe it's related to
> > interrupt latency, maybe it's realplayer that can't write fast enouth
> > to the device and loose sync.
>
> A big "me too", and I also have an AudioPCI (Creative Labs SB64 PCI,
> ES1370). Playback from the local disk works great with RealPlayer, it's
> just the streaming stuff that blows up. I figured it was a bug with Linux
> emulation or threads or something, but what do I know :)
>
> Jared