Cannot mmap /dev/dsp error in alsa 0.9.7 and 0.9.8

Cannot mmap /dev/dsp error in alsa 0.9.7 and 0.9.8

[Edouard Gomez]

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Hello,

I'm having troubles with recent alsa releases (newer than 0.9.6). I
first suffered the bugs explained later on 2.6 test kernels, so i
thought it was smply a 2.6 bug. Tonight the 0.9.8 alsa packages made
their paths into debian SID so i compiled the kernel part for my usual
2.4.22 kernel and i experience the same problems.

Symptoms:
- OSS device mapping fails with a EACCES errno. See attachment for
  triggering the bug.
- mplayer AV sync is too fast by ~20% (men sound like ladies ;-) when
  using the alsa9 output, but syncs well when using the compat oss layer

Configuration:
- 2.4.22-ck2 or 2.4.22 or 2.6.0-test8 or 2.6.0-test9 or
  2.6.0-test9+latest alsa cvs
- alsa 0.9.7 or 0.9.8 or current CVS for the kernel modules and 0.9.8
  for all client shared libs (but shared libs aren't a problem as the
  OSS bug is only related to the module part)
- VIA 8235 (module snd-via82xx)

Known working combinations:
- 2.4.22 + alsa 0.9.6 kmodules + 0.9.8 libs
- 2.4.22-ck2 + alsa 0.9.6 kmodules + 0.9.8 libs

Changing the modules to a 0.9.8 makes the bug appearing.

When playing with 2.6, i tried 0.9.7 and 0.9.8 on top of the test9
version, all show the bug, sorry, i forgot trying 0.9.6 and i erased
the 2.6 tree.

Hope this bug report is enough. See attachment for the OSS bug. The
mmap function call will always return -1 with 0.9.7 or 0.9.8.

PS: the code in the attached file is exactly the same as found in all
    quake engines. That's an Id game (quake3) that triggered the bug first so
    i've copied the quake1 sound init sequence in order to approximate
    the quake3 engine sound initialization... this worked.

-- 
Edouard Gomez

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#include <unistd.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/ioctl.h>
#include <sys/mman.h>
#include <sys/shm.h>
#include <sys/wait.h>
#include <linux/soundcard.h>
#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
	int dsp;
	char *dma_buffer;
	struct audio_buf_info info;
	int caps;

	/* Open the dsp device */
	if ((dsp = open("/dev/dsp", O_RDWR)) == -1) {
		perror("error opening /dev/dsp");
		return(-1);
	}

	/* Reset the dsp */
	if (ioctl(dsp, SNDCTL_DSP_RESET, 0) == -1) {
		perror("Could not reset DSP");
		close(dsp);
		return(-2);
	}

	if (ioctl(dsp, SNDCTL_DSP_GETCAPS, &caps) == -1) {
		perror("error getting DSP capabilities");
		close(dsp);
		return(-3);
	}

	if (!(caps & DSP_CAP_TRIGGER) || !(caps & DSP_CAP_MMAP)) {
		fprintf(stderr, "error mmap capability unavailable\n");
		close(dsp);
		return(-4); 
	}

	if (ioctl(dsp, SNDCTL_DSP_GETOSPACE, &info) == -1) {   
		perror("error GETOSPACE unavailable");
		close(dsp);
		return(-5);
	}

	/* memory map the dma buffer */
	dma_buffer = mmap(NULL, info.fragstotal*info.fragsize, PROT_WRITE, MAP_FILE|MAP_SHARED, dsp, 0);
	if (!dma_buffer || dma_buffer == (char *)-1) {
		perror("Could not mmap /dev/dsp");
		close(dsp);
		return(-6);
	}

	/* never reached */
	munmap(dma_buffer, info.fragstotal*info.fragsize);
	close(dsp);

	return(0);
}

Re: Cannot mmap /dev/dsp error in alsa 0.9.7 and 0.9.8

[Edouard Gomez]

Edouard Gomez (ed.gomez@free.fr) wrote:
> Symptoms:
> - OSS device mapping fails with a EACCES errno. See attachment for
>   triggering the bug.
> - mplayer AV sync is too fast by ~20% (men sound like ladies ;-) when
>   using the alsa9 output, but syncs well when using the compat oss layer

Another symptom:
- I cannot play various audio streams simultaneously anymore since 0.9.7

I forgot to mention the ac97 codec used:
0-0/0: Realtek ALC650 rev 2

It's the audio chip on an asus A7V8X mobo.

I diffed 0.9.7 against  0.9.6 and i can see a fair  amount of changes to
both the via module and the  alc650 ac97 codec. The DXS changes seem not
to cause my problems (tried every dxs_support options).

Where can  i start looking at ?  All advises are welcome  (a patch would
be even better ;-)

-- 
Edouard Gomez


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Re: Cannot mmap /dev/dsp error in alsa 0.9.7 and 0.9.8

[Takashi Iwai]

At Sat, 15 Nov 2003 02:31:37 +0100,
Edouard Gomez wrote:
> 
> [1  <text/plain; us-ascii (7bit)>]
> Hello,
> 
> I'm having troubles with recent alsa releases (newer than 0.9.6). I
> first suffered the bugs explained later on 2.6 test kernels, so i
> thought it was smply a 2.6 bug. Tonight the 0.9.8 alsa packages made
> their paths into debian SID so i compiled the kernel part for my usual
> 2.4.22 kernel and i experience the same problems.
> 
> Symptoms:
> - OSS device mapping fails with a EACCES errno. See attachment for
>   triggering the bug.

try dxs_support=1 module option of snd-via82xx.


Takashi


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