On Saturday 24 January 2004 07:30, Ged wrote:

Hi all,

I have a Toshiba 5205 laptop and have ran SuSE on here since 8.0 with little problems. However, I now have 9.0 on and am having major issues with the sound.

Whenever I try to play any sound I find that the mouse cursor becomes very intermittent as does the sound. It appears they are conflicting with each other.

I don't know how to check this in Linux and am not finding much help when searching for info on the net.

Not sure if this is of any use, but here is my /proc/interrupts file: CPU0 0: 12719635 XT-PIC timer 1: 10333 XT-PIC keyboard 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 4: 16654 XT-PIC eth0, usb-ohci 5: 769935 XT-PIC nvidia 6: 146094 XT-PIC usb-ohci 8: 2 XT-PIC rtc 9: 663 XT-PIC acpi 10: 92 XT-PIC ohci1394, Toshiba America Info Systems ToPIC95 PCI to Cardbus Bridge with ZV Support, Intel 82801CA-ICH3 11: 0 XT-PIC ehci_hcd 14: 92642 XT-PIC ide0 NMI: 0 LOC: 0 ERR: 0 MIS:

It looks like you do not have acpi set up properly. This machine almost certainly needs acpi in order to sort out the interrupts. The symptoms you report are classic for a non-functionaing acpi. 9.0 should automatically detect if the machine is capable of acpi, but in a few cases it fails, and I suppose this could be one of those. Try adding to the boot-prompt: pci=acpi and see if that works. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen