From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pavel Hofman Subject: Re: M-Audio Audiophile 192 (ice1724)'s broken spdif capture Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 11:30:07 +0100 Message-ID: <5108F62F.9080503@ivitera.com> References: <51042EE5.5070900@perex.cz> <7adcf466397b198e2e079e35b47686bc.squirrel@mail.insite.cz> <510670CC.2090904@ivitera.com> <5107188F.3060001@gmail.com> <510798CC.3080006@ivitera.com> <5107CA3E.9000104@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from cable.insite.cz (static-84-242-75-189.net.upcbroadband.cz [84.242.75.189]) by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94F21261718 for ; Wed, 30 Jan 2013 11:30:07 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <5107CA3E.9000104@gmail.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org Sender: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org To: Jonas Petersen Cc: alsa-devel List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org On 29.1.2013 14:10, Jonas Petersen wrote: > > If I switch 'Multi Track Internal Clock' to 'IEC958 In', the whole > system goes crazy. Not instantly, but when I start alsamixer it locks up > (only alsamixer, it can not be killed -9 then). When doing 'ps -aux' it > locks up somewhere in the middle of the list. > This is all with a signal going in the spdif input. > When I reboot (still with signal), the login screen locks up. I can move > the mouse, but I can not input the password. Also the background image > does not load (which normally does). I can switch to another terminal > (e.g. ctrl-alt-f1) and log in. But it will hang sooner or later. > No way switch back the 'Multi Track Internal Clock' to a fixed rate. > Only if I disconnect the signal from the spdif input and reboot, then I > can switch it back and bring the system back to reason. Pew... Thanks a lot for the description. I faintly recall I have heard about this problem once (but never got hold of the reporter to solve). I will take a look, and most likely ask you for more troubleshooting as I do not have the card available. Thanks a lot. Pavel.