In message <873czha182.fsf@snark.piermont.com>, "Perry E. Metzger" writes:
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>Marshall Rose <mrose+mtr.netnews@dbc.mtview.ca.us> writes:
>> hi. the last traffic i saw on this thread was late november of last
>> year. has anyone resolved the issues with the clcs audio driver?
>> (i'm at 1.5ZA).
>
>I suspect port-i386 is a better place for this, but...
>
>I continue to have some minor problems with the clcs driver on my IBM
>Thinkpad T-20 -- occasionally, if there are lots of short
>open/write/close cycles on the device (typical of things like the
>chimes put out by a couple of programs like gaim) the audio gets
>totally nuked -- starts sounding, for a random period of time, like
>you're listening to a scratchy 78 record. It will stay like that
>across reboots (!) unless I boot windows in between.1 Also, when
>booting, every once in a while the device starts spewing errors and
>nukes autoconfig, forcing a power cycle.

Do you still get crashes at suspend/resume?  I did sufficiently often 
(on 1.5.2) that I've excluded it from my kernel.  Sound is nice; 
stability is mandatory.

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