Comment 21 for bug 114363

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Drew Woodard (drew-woodard) wrote :

@Nick B
It is possible that you have a completely legitimate flash-crash bug that is unrelated to sound. And at the same time myself and others could have a flash-crash bug that is sound dependent.

The flash plugins seem able to create a range of problems, and there is little documentation or feedback from Adobe, combined with the proprietary nature of the plugin it can be rather frustrating to troubleshoot. I've seen in other bug reports people reporting various problems with the flash plugins that had different causes, part of the reason I put snd-hda-intel in the original description of this bug report was that I wanted to be specific in saying that this particular bug report would be about the apparent conflict between the plugin and that sound driver. And that flash-crash problems related to color depth or other variables could be discussed in their corresponding bug reports.

As for whether there is any conflict related to the flash/snd-hda-intel combination, I can't say for sure but there does seem to be a good amount of evidence. In my original description for this bug report I linked to the following bug report:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/flashplugin-nonfree/+bug/104470
in that report myself and others with sound chips that use snd-hda-intel found that we could stop the crashes both by disabling sound in the bios or switching to a kernel that used a different snd-hda-intel, which points strongly to there being a connection.