Messages in this thread | | | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.21-pre3 kernel crash | Date | Tue, 28 Jan 2003 04:08:53 -0500 (EST) |
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> > certain applications (gaim, macromedia flash player 6 for example), esd > > gets itself into some kind of hung/blocked state. When this happens, I > > need to kill esd and re-start it. Games and xmms work however. The > > reason I ask about this is that the downloaded driver from the viaarena > > works on a stock kernel without this glitch. Is this a known problem? > > > > The chip is a VT8235 and I'm happy that it mostly works in pre3 too. The > > alsa driver reportedly works OK. > > hmmm, not a known problem to me. Alan?
I have an idea actually, and if so a quickfix for Arjan. What happens is
app -> open /dev/audio (gets the 6 channel audio) app2 (esd) -> open /dev/audio1 (gets the secondary dsp)
or app2 opens /dev/audio and we have a close v open wakeup bug.
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