pcm problem (static, noise) (re: pr kern/14990, kern/44512)

[Matthew Reimer]

Fred Clift wrote:
> Hi.  I've been meaning to either track down the problem myself, or ask
> someone about this for a while.
> 
> About 1 out of 20 times, when applications try to play audio to my sound
> card, I get static, that lasts as long as the device is held open.
[snip]
> pcm0: <CS423x> at port 0x534-0x537,0x388-0x38b,0x220-0x22f irq 5 drq 1,0
> on isa0

I have the same soundcard (on an A/Open card) and I hear the same 
occasional static, especially under KDE.

Matt