Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 03 Dec 2003 12:29:01 +0100 | From | Takashi Iwai <> | Subject | Re: vanilla 2.6.0-test11 and CS4236 card |
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Hi,
At Tue, 2 Dec 2003 21:17:51 -0600, Joseph Pingenot wrote: > > THE BAD NEWS: > ------------- > > Both times (with your patch and with isapnp), I had the following problems: > a) xmms wouldn't talk straight to the card even after selecting the alsa > output plugin
what was the error exactly?
> b) I started esd (the alsa version) and then told xmms to talk to esd. > It worked out well for a couple of seconds, but then it crashed > (both with your patch and with the manually activated (isapnp) one) > > It crashed HARD.
oh, that's bad.
> It crashed so hard that it wiped out some files, like apt, I presume > when it was cleaning "orphans" in /; the net result is that my > box is semi-hosed, since things like tr and apt-get and route > are now full of '\0' characters instead of their actual contents. > > Sound played for about a second, then the machine hung hard (I don't think > that the Magic SysRq keys even did anything), and the last couple of > tenths of a second of sound just repeated over and over and over until > I hit reset. I don't have an oops; it was highly hosed. > > When I can pull my system back together, I can try again. Please help > me find this new bug, so that the cs4236 driver is safe for other > Dell P410 users! :)
i'm puzzled because cs4236's pcm code is basically identical with cs4231, and cs4232 seems working (at least the last time i tested). anyway, please show the kernel config and check any other apps do similar oops / crash.
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