i810_audio problems

I'm having problems with the i810_audio driver and the ICH3 chipset.

When playing audio, it skips VERY badly. After stopping the audio, I get the message:
drain_dac, dma timeout?

The system is responsive during the skipping, so I doubt it's just high load. I am using 2.4.20-pre3-ac4 right now, but it also occurs on 2.4.20 and 2.4.21-pre3.

The i810_audio driver in 2.5 works.

There are no other kernel messages about audio, just drain_dac, dma timeout?

Any help with this would be appreciated. I will attempt to debug this further later tonight.

Regards,
Matthew J. Fanto

I've also noticed similar problems. Sometimes when I reboot I end up having no sound coming from the speakers at all and when I try to play something then the player either hangs(mplayer) or starts to skip seconds(mp3blaster) (0:00, 0:07, 0:21 ..etc)

Rebooting the computer sevelar times will eventually fix it. Reloading the module doesn't seem to help, however.

2.4.{18;19;20} vanilla kernels all had that problem, now on 2.5.59 I haven't noticed it (yet?).