Bug 75133

Description of Problem:
The system is a dual processor PIII and I have had the problem with an Ensoniq
sound card (ES1370 drive) and the SB Live sound card (emu10k1 driver).

Using various sound applications such as realplay, xmms, and mplayer, sometimes
the system will hang in a hard freeze (and sound loop) -- requires a hardware
reset or power cycle.  In addition, I also cannot ssh into the system from
another system.  Furthermore, I have this system on a Belkin KVM box and when it
hangs, I cannot use the keyboard or the Belkin switch to change to another
system ... hardware reset is the only way to get out.

When the system hangs, the sound "loops" with a usually short segment which will
repeat until the hardware reset.

As far as showing the problem, I have found that using xmms to play various ogg
files rip'ed from cds will demonstrate the problem.

Note that there is nothing in any of the logs to show the problem.

I suspect that the kernel is going into some kind of loop with everything disabled.

Note that I do not see the problem if I reboot and run the non-smp kernel.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
8.0, kernel-smp-2.4.18-14

How Reproducible:
yes but not predictable.  Somtimes it will run for hours before a freeze and
others only a couple of minutes.  Processor activity can be light or heavy.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. boot smp kernel
2. run some applications which will play lots of music.
3. 

Additional Information:
	
I do not know if just playing cd's will cause the problem but I doubt it.

There is really no way around this other than "don't do that" which just will
not work for me.