Re: More info on hard lock-ups with MIDI on envy24, x86_64 machine

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

On Thu, 2005-08-11 at 15:25 +0100, Daniel James wrote:
> Hello again,
> 
> I swapped the M-Audio envy24 card for a SoundBlaster PCI EMU10K1 card 
> and the problem went away - MIDI worked fine. I put the envy24 card 
> back in and the problem came back. It only happens when applications 
> make a MIDI connection to the ALSA sequencer, whether the MIDI dongle 
> is attached or not. Audio-only applications don't cause the lock-ups.
> 
> Is this perhaps a bug in the envy24 driver that only affects x86_64 
> machines? Or if other people have this combination working OK, could 
> it be faulty hardware? Any clues would be appreciated.

Sounds like a driver bug to me.

I guess you have tried to trigger the crash from a console as well as X,
and there's no Oops output?

Lee



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