Re: [PATCH] emu10k1 multichannel support

[Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>]

On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 18:20 +0000, William wrote:
> Lee Revell wrote:
> >
> > Ok, found the bug.  snd_emu10k1_voice_alloc now takes the number of
> > voices as the third parameter, previously it took 1 or 0 depending on
> > whether 1 or 2 voices were needed.
> > 
> > Does this fix the problem?
> 
> Actually I'm getting lots of these messages every time I play any
> MIDI files on the emu10k1 wavetable synth:
> 
> Jan 19 18:11:00 linux kernel: first==last, number 1, next free 36!
> Jan 19 18:11:03 linux last message repeated 37 times
> Jan 19 18:11:41 linux kernel: first==last, number 1, next free 8!
> Jan 19 18:12:12 linux last message repeated 450 times
> Jan 19 18:13:08 linux last message repeated 847 times
> 
> The comments in your patch say this could be a "BUG (or not enough voices)!"

Yes, that's certainly a bug.  I have hit this occasionally using aplay
while JACK is running but I can't reliably reproduce it.  The wavetable
synth allocates and frees voices much faster.

I will take a look.

Lee



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