Sound problem on Intel ICH4. Sound only plays on keypress (any)
Well, I know the title is not quite explanatory, because this is the weirdest bug/missconfiguration I've ever seen before in my life.
So I've been trying really hard to set this really old Acer TravelMate 280 with linux, and I've succeded almost perfectly with Linux Mint 9 (xfce).
But now the problem is that whenever I want to play ANY sound from ANY application (even speaker-test from alsa), I have to press a random key for the sound to start. Just after pressing any key (in every position/window/etc) I hear what seems like the buffer filling up, for like 1 sec, and then it plays PREFECTLY. And after releasing the key, I hear what I assume it would be the buffer debuffering and then sound stops. At first I tried with a live streaming through livestreamer -> VLC, and video worked perfectly and kept on running, while audio paused every time I released the random key I was pressing (random as in even SHIFT, or Screen Capture, or ESC, or whatever). So I assumed audio just didn't come out of the speakers, but it was still being processed. But recently I've tried with Exaile, and wht it does is COMPLETELY pause the player, although it says it's still playing, but the progress bar freezes completely and the numbers showing the seconds too. After hitting a random key and keeping pressure again, it picks it up where it left, as if nothing had happened.
It's driving me nuts, mostly because it's quite insane that an audio issue has anything to do with the keyboard.
Please, excuse my poor english vocabulary, and I hope some genious out there would fancy taking a look into this problem and giving me a solution/pointing me in the right direction.
If you need any further information, anything at all, just ask.
Timineutron
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