On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 08:08:46AM -0600, Alvaro Mantilla Gimenez wrote:

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> Hi,

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>   I have a HP Pavilion dv8000 too and, after install 4.2, i go back to

> 4.1. The audio on vlc, xine, xmms sounds too fast and cut from time to

> time (5-6 sec intervals)....even playing internet radio....and the HD

> access sucks. For example: i spent more than 15 minutes doing "tar xvzf

> ports.tar.gz". All this with the GENERIC kernel out of the box. Do you

> experiment the same problems? I tried enable acpi too....same result.

> On 4.1 everything works as expected (except xmms that sounds too fast too).

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could you post your 'dmesg' and the output of

'audioctl -f /dev/audio0 -a' (assuming audio0 is your audio device)
-- Alexandre