From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Edward Tandi <ed@efix.biz>
Cc: Kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, alan@redhat.com
Subject: Re: 2.4.21-pre3 kernel crash
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 15:57:19 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030127205719.GB20873@gtf.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1043700477.2656.18.camel@wires.home.biz>
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 08:47:57PM +0000, Edward Tandi wrote:
> 2) The OSS audio driver. It works and this is the main reason why I use
> this version of the kernel. The issue I have with it, is that if I start
> 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?
> While I'm here, any chance of getting the bcm4400 NIC driver into the
> 2.4 kernel?
Nope, no chance at all. It's more of BroadCom's abstraction layer,
bug-filled crap.
The route here is to fix up "b44" in 2.5, and then put it into 2.4.
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-27 20:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-27 15:41 2.4.21-pre3 kernel crash Martin MOKREJŠ
2003-01-27 16:53 ` Ross Biro
2003-01-27 17:13 ` Martin MOKREJŠ
2003-01-27 19:23 ` Jens Axboe
2003-01-27 20:27 ` Edward Tandi
2003-01-27 20:36 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-01-27 20:47 ` Edward Tandi
2003-01-27 20:57 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2003-01-28 9:08 ` Alan Cox
2003-01-28 10:50 ` Martin MOKREJŠ
2003-01-27 23:18 ` J.A. Magallon
2003-01-27 23:24 ` Jens Axboe
2003-01-28 0:02 ` J.A. Magallon
2003-01-27 19:03 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-01-27 19:21 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-01-27 19:25 ` Jens Axboe
2003-01-27 19:45 ` Alan Cox
2003-01-27 19:49 ` Jens Axboe
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-01-28 16:41 Larry Sendlosky
2003-01-28 22:06 ` Jens Axboe
2003-01-29 8:23 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-01-29 8:53 ` Jens Axboe
2003-01-29 9:44 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-01-29 10:16 ` Jens Axboe
2003-01-29 8:23 Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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