On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 7:44 PM, Pete Goodeve <pete.goodeve@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > ... I should have mentioned that this was an alpha-3 image on the > USB-stick. I looked at the source log for the HDA driver, and can't > see any revisions since then. There's no way that running from > a stick should affect the audio, is there? No virtual memory, I > presume, but the box has 4GB of actual... Weren't the IOAPIC changes post-A3? If yes, then I would test again with a nightly - until the IOAPIC changes done by mmlr, USB, Wifi, Ethernet, and HDA shared IRQs conflicted terribly on my netbook and that fixed it. Personally, I wouldn't imagine running A3 at this point - so many fixes and improvements have been implemented since then... - Urias