Hiccups/hangs with pulseaudio and hd audio ALC883 (ClevoM570RU)

Hello guys,
well, as the topic already says, I'm having problems with pulseaudio combined with an ALC883 hd audio card
on a Clevo-M570RU. I got occassional hiccups and hangs and pulseaudio rewinds.
For some strange reason I can't kill pulseaudio without having it restart immediatley in the
current version of archlinux, but I can tell that prior versions showed that the wakeup timer of the pulseaudio
was increased steadily after buffer underruns occured.
Its quite rare that buffer underruns occur in which cases pulseaudio triggers a replay of the lost samples (resulting in a hiccup)
but I can trigger it about every 30-2mins secs with running flash in fullscreen (happens way less in normal window size mode).
Sometimes the general setup seems to be unstable, resulting in hiccups every like 10 secs, with increasing "severity".
So far I tried everything possible to fix this issue without any success so far. Maybe one of you guys has an insight into this.
So far I can only tell, that flash in fullscreen and also normal video playback in vlc (with VDPAU or without, fullscreen worse) trigger this issue way more often.
So chances are, this is triggered by the NVIDIA drivers, but the problem with that is, that I really need those for development work.
Also note that e.g. Ubuntu 9.04 did not trigger such an issue - maybe they had an workaround and didn't push it upstream (as usual).
More info:
Feb 15 13:11:00 pulseaudio[2840]: alsa-util.c: snd_pcm_avail_delay() returned strange values: delay 0 is less than avail 8.
Feb 15 13:11:00 pulseaudio[2840]: alsa-util.c: Most likely this is a bug in the ALSA driver 'snd_hda_intel'. Please report this issue to the ALSA developers.
Feb 15 13:11:00 pulseaudio[2840]: alsa-util.c: snd_pcm_dump():
Feb 15 13:11:00 pulseaudio[2840]: alsa-util.c: Soft volume PCM
Feb 15 13:11:00 pulseaudio[2840]: alsa-util.c: Control: PCM Playback Volume
Feb 15 13:11:00 pulseaudio[2840]: alsa-util.c: min_dB: -51
Feb 15 13:11:00 pulseaudio[2840]: alsa-util.c: max_dB: 0
Feb 15 13:11:00 pulseaudio[2840]: alsa-util.c: resolution: 256
Feb 15 13:11:00 pulseaudio[2840]: alsa-util.c: Its setup is:
Feb 15 13:11:00 pulseaudio[2840]: alsa-util.c: stream : CAPTURE
Feb 15 13:11:00 pulseaudio[2840]: alsa-util.c: access : MMAP_INTERLEAVED
Feb 15 13:11:00 pulseaudio[2840]: alsa-util.c: format : S16_LE
Feb 15 13:11:00 pulseaudio[2840]: alsa-util.c: subformat : STD
Feb 15 13:11:00 pulseaudio[2840]: alsa-util.c: channels : 2
Feb 15 13:11:00 pulseaudio[2840]: alsa-util.c: rate : 48000
Feb 15 13:11:00 pulseaudio[2840]: alsa-util.c: exact rate : 48000 (48000/1)
Feb 15 13:11:00 pulseaudio[2840]: alsa-util.c: msbits : 16
Feb 15 13:11:00 pulseaudio[2840]: alsa-util.c: buffer_size : 16384
Feb 15 13:11:00 pulseaudio[2840]: alsa-util.c: period_size : 8192
Feb 15 13:11:00 pulseaudio[2840]: alsa-util.c: period_time : 170666
Feb 15 13:11:00 pulseaudio[2840]: alsa-util.c: tstamp_mode : ENABLE
Feb 15 13:11:00 pulseaudio[2840]: alsa-util.c: period_step : 1
Feb 15 13:11:00 pulseaudio[2840]: alsa-util.c: avail_min : 15424
Feb 15 13:11:00 pulseaudio[2840]: alsa-util.c: period_event : 0
Feb 15 13:11:00 pulseaudio[2840]: alsa-util.c: start_threshold : -1
Feb 15 13:11:00 pulseaudio[2840]: alsa-util.c: stop_threshold : 4611686018427387904
Feb 15 13:11:00 pulseaudio[2840]: alsa-util.c: silence_threshold: 0
Feb 15 13:11:00 pulseaudio[2840]: alsa-util.c: silence_size : 0
Feb 15 13:11:00 pulseaudio[2840]: alsa-util.c: boundary : 4611686018427387904
Feb 15 13:11:00 pulseaudio[2840]: alsa-util.c: Slave: Hardware PCM card 0 'HDA Intel' device 0 subdevice 0
Feb 15 13:11:00 pulseaudio[2840]: alsa-util.c: Its setup is:
Feb 15 13:11:00 pulseaudio[2840]: alsa-util.c: stream : CAPTURE
Feb 15 13:11:00 pulseaudio[2840]: alsa-util.c: access : MMAP_INTERLEAVED
Feb 15 13:11:00 pulseaudio[2840]: alsa-util.c: format : S16_LE
Feb 15 13:11:00 pulseaudio[2840]: alsa-util.c: subformat : STD
Feb 15 13:11:00 pulseaudio[2840]: alsa-util.c: channels : 2
Feb 15 13:11:00 pulseaudio[2840]: alsa-util.c: rate : 48000
Feb 15 13:11:00 pulseaudio[2840]: alsa-util.c: exact rate : 48000 (48000/1)
Feb 15 13:11:00 pulseaudio[2840]: alsa-util.c: msbits : 16
Feb 15 13:11:00 pulseaudio[2840]: alsa-util.c: buffer_size : 16384
Feb 15 13:11:00 pulseaudio[2840]: alsa-util.c: period_size : 8192
Feb 15 13:11:00 pulseaudio[2840]: alsa-util.c: period_time : 170666
Feb 15 13:11:00 pulseaudio[2840]: alsa-util.c: tstamp_mode : ENABLE
Feb 15 13:11:00 pulseaudio[2840]: alsa-util.c: period_step : 1
Feb 15 13:11:00 pulseaudio[2840]: alsa-util.c: avail_min : 15424
Feb 15 13:11:00 pulseaudio[2840]: alsa-util.c: period_event : 0
Feb 15 13:11:00 pulseaudio[2840]: alsa-util.c: start_threshold : -1
Feb 15 13:11:00 pulseaudio[2840]: alsa-util.c: stop_threshold : 4611686018427387904
Feb 15 13:11:00 pulseaudio[2840]: alsa-util.c: silence_threshold: 0
Feb 15 13:11:00 pulseaudio[2840]: alsa-util.c: silence_size : 0
Feb 15 13:11:00 pulseaudio[2840]: alsa-util.c: boundary : 4611686018427387904
Feb 15 13:11:00 pulseaudio[2840]: alsa-util.c: appl_ptr : 15432
Feb 15 13:11:00 pulseaudio[2840]: alsa-util.c: hw_ptr : 15432
Feb 15 13:11:24 pulseaudio[2865]: alsa-util.c: snd_pcm_avail_delay() returned strange values: delay 0 is less than avail 8.
Feb 15 13:11:24 pulseaudio[2865]: alsa-util.c: Most likely this is a bug in the ALSA driver 'snd_hda_intel'. Please report this issue to the ALSA developers.
Feb 15 13:11:24 pulseaudio[2865]: alsa-util.c: snd_pcm_dump():
Feb 15 13:11:24 pulseaudio[2865]: alsa-util.c: Soft volume PCM
Feb 15 13:11:24 pulseaudio[2865]: alsa-util.c: Control: PCM Playback Volume
Feb 15 13:11:24 pulseaudio[2865]: alsa-util.c: min_dB: -51
Feb 15 13:11:24 pulseaudio[2865]: alsa-util.c: max_dB: 0
Feb 15 13:11:24 pulseaudio[2865]: alsa-util.c: resolution: 256
Feb 15 13:11:24 pulseaudio[2865]: alsa-util.c: Its setup is:
Feb 15 13:11:24 pulseaudio[2865]: alsa-util.c: stream : CAPTURE
Feb 15 13:11:24 pulseaudio[2865]: alsa-util.c: access : MMAP_INTERLEAVED
Feb 15 13:11:24 pulseaudio[2865]: alsa-util.c: format : S16_LE
Feb 15 13:11:24 pulseaudio[2865]: alsa-util.c: subformat : STD
Feb 15 13:11:24 pulseaudio[2865]: alsa-util.c: channels : 2
Feb 15 13:11:24 pulseaudio[2865]: alsa-util.c: rate : 48000
Feb 15 13:11:24 pulseaudio[2865]: alsa-util.c: exact rate : 48000 (48000/1)
Feb 15 13:11:24 pulseaudio[2865]: alsa-util.c: msbits : 16
Feb 15 13:11:24 pulseaudio[2865]: alsa-util.c: buffer_size : 16384
Feb 15 13:11:24 pulseaudio[2865]: alsa-util.c: period_size : 8192
Feb 15 13:11:24 pulseaudio[2865]: alsa-util.c: period_time : 170666
Feb 15 13:11:24 pulseaudio[2865]: alsa-util.c: tstamp_mode : ENABLE
Feb 15 13:11:24 pulseaudio[2865]: alsa-util.c: period_step : 1
Feb 15 13:11:24 pulseaudio[2865]: alsa-util.c: avail_min : 15424
Feb 15 13:11:24 pulseaudio[2865]: alsa-util.c: period_event : 0
Feb 15 13:11:24 pulseaudio[2865]: alsa-util.c: start_threshold : -1
Feb 15 13:11:24 pulseaudio[2865]: alsa-util.c: stop_threshold : 4611686018427387904
Feb 15 13:11:24 pulseaudio[2865]: alsa-util.c: silence_threshold: 0
Feb 15 13:11:24 pulseaudio[2865]: alsa-util.c: silence_size : 0
Feb 15 13:11:24 pulseaudio[2865]: alsa-util.c: boundary : 4611686018427387904
Feb 15 13:11:24 pulseaudio[2865]: alsa-util.c: Slave: Hardware PCM card 0 'HDA Intel' device 0 subdevice 0
Feb 15 13:11:24 pulseaudio[2865]: alsa-util.c: Its setup is:
Feb 15 13:11:24 pulseaudio[2865]: alsa-util.c: stream : CAPTURE
Feb 15 13:11:24 pulseaudio[2865]: alsa-util.c: access : MMAP_INTERLEAVED
Feb 15 13:11:24 pulseaudio[2865]: alsa-util.c: format : S16_LE
Feb 15 13:11:24 pulseaudio[2865]: alsa-util.c: subformat : STD
Feb 15 13:11:24 pulseaudio[2865]: alsa-util.c: channels : 2
Feb 15 13:11:24 pulseaudio[2865]: alsa-util.c: rate : 48000
Feb 15 13:11:24 pulseaudio[2865]: alsa-util.c: exact rate : 48000 (48000/1)
Feb 15 13:11:24 pulseaudio[2865]: alsa-util.c: msbits : 16
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Feb 15 13:11:24 pulseaudio[2865]: alsa-util.c: period_time : 170666
Feb 15 13:11:24 pulseaudio[2865]: alsa-util.c: tstamp_mode : ENABLE
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lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 PCI Express Root Port (rev 03)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 03)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 03)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 03)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 6 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev f3)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HEM (ICH8M) LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA IDE Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G92 [GeForce 8800M GTX] (rev a2)
06:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation WiFi Link 5100
08:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 01)
0c:07.0 FLASH memory: ENE Technology Inc ENE PCI Memory Stick Card Reader Controller
0c:07.1 SD Host controller: ENE Technology Inc ENE PCI SmartMedia / xD Card Reader Controller
0c:07.3 FLASH memory: ENE Technology Inc ENE PCI Secure Digital / MMC Card Reader Controller
0c:09.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6306/7/8 [Fire II(M)] IEEE 1394 OHCI Controller (rev c0)
cat /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf
options snd-hda-intel model=clevo-m720
options snd-hda-intel power_save=0
options snd-hda-intel enable_msi=1
Note that these options were added for further tests, they make absolutely no difference to the problem when left out.
lsmod
Module Size Used by
cryptd 7709 0
aes_x86_64 7428 3
aes_generic 26314 1 aes_x86_64
ipv6 280810 20
btusb 11689 0
bluetooth 53970 1 btusb
fuse 64912 3
arc4 1394 2
cpufreq_ondemand 8716 0
nvidia 10084294 40
ecb 2057 2
snd_usb_audio 87191 2
acpi_cpufreq 5977 1
freq_table 2339 2 cpufreq_ondemand,acpi_cpufreq
mperf 1259 1 acpi_cpufreq
snd_usbmidi_lib 18484 1 snd_usb_audio
iwlagn 358041 0
snd_rawmidi 19525 1 snd_usbmidi_lib
iwlcore 92743 1 iwlagn
snd_seq_dummy 1479 0
snd_seq_oss 29368 0
snd_seq_midi_event 5516 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 50594 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device 5281 4 snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss 39669 0
snd_mixer_oss 17858 1 snd_pcm_oss
usbhid 36375 0
hid 77863 1 usbhid
joydev 10183 0
sg 25972 0
snd_hda_codec_si3054 3870 1
mac80211 199564 2 iwlagn,iwlcore
snd_hda_codec_realtek 295557 1
lirc_ite8709 5705 0
snd_hda_intel 21837 4
video 11923 0
output 1988 1 video
usb_storage 43276 0
uas 8170 0
sdhci_pci 7454 0
lirc_dev 9759 1 lirc_ite8709
snd_hda_codec 74609 3 snd_hda_codec_si3054,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel
uhci_hcd 22230 0
ac 3217 0
thermal 7890 0
processor 25265 3 acpi_cpufreq
container 2541 0
button 4882 0
battery 10279 0
firewire_ohci 26921 0
intel_agp 10504 0
cfg80211 139317 3 iwlagn,iwlcore,mac80211
intel_gtt 15215 1 intel_agp
psmouse 53237 0
firewire_core 49974 1 firewire_ohci
snd_hwdep 6222 2 snd_usb_audio,snd_hda_codec
r8169 36286 0
snd_pcm 72481 6 snd_usb_audio,snd_pcm_oss,snd_hda_codec_si3054,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
snd_timer 19537 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd 58938 26 snd_usb_audio,snd_usbmidi_lib,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_hda_codec_si3054,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_timer
ehci_hcd 37571 0
soundcore 6161 1 snd
mii 3842 1 r8169
usbcore 139048 9 btusb,snd_usb_audio,snd_usbmidi_lib,usbhid,usb_storage,uas,uhci_hcd,ehci_hcd
serio_raw 4566 0
pcspkr 1835 0
crc_itu_t 1313 1 firewire_core
sdhci 17174 1 sdhci_pci
shpchp 26725 0
i2c_i801 8230 0
wmi 8061 0
snd_page_alloc 7361 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
mmc_core 62378 1 sdhci
pci_hotplug 24655 1 shpchp
i2c_core 19078 2 nvidia,i2c_i801
evdev 9361 19
iTCO_wdt 10925 0
iTCO_vendor_support 1817 1 iTCO_wdt
rfkill 16122 2 bluetooth,cfg80211
ext3 125159 2
jbd 46953 1 ext3
mbcache 5802 1 ext3
sr_mod 15402 0
cdrom 36363 1 sr_mod
sd_mod 27120 4
pata_acpi 3296 0
ata_piix 21670 3
libata 169364 2 pata_acpi,ata_piix
scsi_mod 125814 6 sg,usb_storage,uas,sr_mod,sd_mod,libata
cat /etc/rc.conf | grep DAEMONS=
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng !network netfs dbus hal networkmanager !wicd alsa crond @postgresql irqbalance kdm)
Leaving out irqbalance doesn't change anything either.
uname -a
Linux - 2.6.37-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Jan 29 20:00:33 CET 2011 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T9300 @ 2.50GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
yaourt -Q nvidia pulseaudio libvdpau
extra/nvidia 260.19.36-2
extra/pulseaudio 0.9.22-2
extra/libvdpau 0.4.1-1
extra/alsa-lib 1.0.23-2
aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC883 Analog [ALC883 Analog]
Subdevices: 0/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 1: ALC883 Digital [ALC883 Digital]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 6: Si3054 Modem [Si3054 Modem]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: Audio [USB Audio], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
I'd be really thankful for any hint that could lead to the solution of the problem.
Regards
apriori

If i run
modprobe snd_hda_intel vendor=0x10de product=0x0e0a
then this gets printed to the kernel log
[ 655.731520] snd_hda_intel: unknown parameter 'vendor' ignored
[ 655.731527] snd_hda_intel: unknown parameter 'product' ignored
[ 655.731856] hda_intel: Disabling MSI
[ 655.731871] hda-intel 0000:01:00.1: Handle VGA-switcheroo audio client
[ 656.739954] hda-intel 0000:01:00.1: Codec #0 probe error; disabling it...
I've tried vid, pid, vendor_id and product_id as parameters, none work. And if i issue modinfo on this module i can't really find a parameter that looks like vendor/product id.
The same happens if i try adding parameters to the loading of snd_hda_codec_hdmi.

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