Re: alsa-0.9.3a : powermac locks machine hard

[Erik de Castro Lopo <erikd-alsa@mega-nerd.com>]

On Thu, 15 May 2003 19:05:40 +1000
Erik de Castro Lopo <erikd-alsa@mega-nerd.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I have an Apple iBook running Debian Linux with a kernel compiled
> from the Debian kernel-source-2.4.20 package with the Debain PowerPC
> patches applied. I have installed from source (obtained at 
> alsa-project.org) :
> 
> 	alsa-driver-0.9.3a
> 	alsa-lib-0.9.3
> 
> When I run the init script ("/etc/init.d/alsa start" on my Debian 
> installation) it fails stating that alsactl seg faulted. If I 
> then run "/etc/init.d/alsa stop", the machine locks hard (no 
> response to keyboard or pings).
> 
> I then removed the battery and rebooted the machine. Here is the
> kernel Ooops message. Is there anything I can do to help debug this?

Can anyone tell me where to begin debuggung this?

Erik
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