[plug] realplayer and via onboard audio

[Denis Brown]

Talking about strange sound effects on via chipsets under Linux...

For what it's worth, I've seen the same effect on several Windows
boxes.  The Windows sign-on tune starts out okay and then becomes
"strangled" -- really the only way to describe it.  All other sound files
react teh same way.  Have also heard the "crackling" sound.

Lacking time to follow through in depth, solution so far is to reload the
driver.  No idea if it will recur.  IRQ problem?  But then it should not
respond to a driver reload.  (end of idle speculation)

Cheers,
Denis