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Re:Raspberry Pi 3 on Sale by mindslight on Monday February 29, 2016 @11:58AM (#11196554)
Connecting the analog audio of the RPi (1B) to my receiver causes the receiver's CPU to slow down to the point where it is unusable! It looks like the RPi puts out a DC-biased signal, and the receiver is seriously lacking input robustness. The two devices were also connected via HDMI, ruling out ground issues.

I've since moved the music setup to also use HDMI (the DAC in the receiver is bound to be better anyway), but sheesh, be warned.

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Re:Raspberry Pi 3 on Sale by justin66 on Monday February 29, 2016 @04:30PM (#11198695)
How on earth do you know what your receiver's CPU is doing?
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Re:Raspberry Pi 3 on Sale by mindslight on Monday February 29, 2016 @05:51PM (#11199343)
The UI slows down gradually until the whole thing is unresponsive, reproducibly. IIRC disconnect the analog input, and the UI picks right back up.

I've no idea if it's a priority interrupt firing too much, body diode current weirdness, or some thermal issue. And I'm certainly not going to keep teasing the fault to figure it out.

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Re:Raspberry Pi 3 on Sale by justin66 on Tuesday March 01, 2016 @11:00AM (#11203493)
Yeah, wow. That's wacky.
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