Bug 454939

Problem: Sound will occasionally jitter/stutter for periods of say... 20 seconds
or so.  While that is happening the mouse pointer will freeze.  The mouse
pointer unfreezes once the stuck sound becomes normal again.  Just to clarify,
say the sound is "a".  Rather than just "a" I hear "a a a a a a a a a" like it
is scratched and repeating itself.  It doesn't seem to matter how long the sound
plays for... it can be the GNOME startup sound (which is short) or two minutes
into a Prince's 1999.

There are some times where there is no (obvious) sound output and the mouse
pointer will not be visible until after 10 seconds of moving the mouse around.

I don't know if the mouse the issue and the sound issue are related to another
or not but they appear to be.

All other hardware works great including the wired and wireless network
adaptors, the display (1440 x 900 widescreen), accellerated video (although I
leave Desktop Effects turned off), special keys on the keyboard (screen
brightness, volume control, the wireless NIC on/off switch)... I can even plug
in an external display and open up the Screen Resolution tool and detect it and
use it.  Everything works great accept for the periodic stuttering sound and mouse.

Kernel version: kernel-2.6.25.9-76.fc9.x86_64

Hardware: lspci output:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory
Controller Hub (rev 0c)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960
Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated
Graphics Controller (rev 0c)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI
Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI
Controller #5 (rev 02)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI
Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller
(rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1
(rev 02)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 2
(rev 02)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 6
(rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI
Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI
Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI
Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI
Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev f2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HEM (ICH8M) LPC Interface Controller
(rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) IDE
Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA IDE
Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
03:01.0 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. Cardbus bridge (rev 21)
03:01.4 FireWire (IEEE 1394): O2 Micro, Inc. Firewire (IEEE 1394) (rev 02)
09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5755M Gigabit
Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02)
0c:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network
Connection (rev 02)

I'll check out the 2.6.9.10 kernel whenever it is released and close this bug if
it goes away.  If there is any troubleshooting you want me to do, please let me
know what and I'll update this report.  I hope it is complete enough.