Comment 236 for bug 274995

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Daniel T Chen (crimsun) wrote : Re: [Bug 274995] Re: MASTER storing ALSA mixer element values during shutdown hangs nondeterministically if non-loopback network interfaces are still up

On 11/23/2008 05:46 PM, Dovel wrote:
> Interesting Robb. I have two installations of Intrepid on my laptop
> (which as I said has no Intel hardware, so should not be affected by any
> bios or driver bug suggested by Daniel Chen above). The one which I
> upgraded from Hardy does not show this fault, but the one which I
> installed from the CD does and was fixed by altering /etc/hosts to
> include localhost under ip6.
>

This bug does not /just/ affect Intel audio hardware. It is a bios
issue and therefore is capable of hitting /all/ audio hardware. The fix
as applied upstream is incomplete, because it needs to be added to all
drivers.