Re: Backported sbxfi driver (UNTESTED!)

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

At Thu, 23 Oct 2008 18:32:19 +0100,
Jason Harvey wrote:
> 
> Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > At Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:23:22 +0100,
> > Jason Harvey wrote:
> >   
> >> Takashi Iwai wrote:
> >>     
> >>> Fixed and uploaded now.
> >>> It might take some time until the changes are sync'ed.
> >>>   
> >>>       
> >> Thanks, downloaded, patched fine.
> >> Attached dmesg_modprobe.txt shows output before playing anything.
> >>
> >> No sound now using  the oss workaround "echo mplayer 0 0 direct > 
> >> /proc/asound/card0/pcm0p/oss"
> >> Mplayer starts but doesn't increment shows 0% 0seconds etc etc, it can 
> >> be interrupted ctrl-c, the PC remains functional, just no sound.
> >> dmesg_after.txt is the tail end of dmesg after interrupting mplayer, I 
> >> trimmed it as the first couple seven lines repeat for about 330K in the 
> >> original log :)
> >> Instant reboot when trying mplayer without the oss workaround.
> >>     
> >
> > OK, so the patch doesn't help, and it brings another problem.
> > What about debug=2?  This will give much less log, I guess.
> >   
> debug=2 is still too big to see the start of playback.
> If I can get the buffer big enough to find the beginning I'll post it :)

That'll be good.

> >> aplay -Dplug:dmix:0 wn.wav still works.
> >> Trying mplayer after aplay freezes the machine with no output onto the 
> >> console.
> >>     
> >
> > Even with OSS proc hack?
> >   
> Yes, if I aplay first it locks up entirely when I issue OSS proc hack 
> then run mplayer.
> Without running aplay I can get a dmesg but mplayer makes no sound.
> I've put the debug=1 output along with the commands etc below.

Just to be sure: is it the driver with my patch or without the patch?
The patch seems broken anyway, so abandon it, and check only without
the patch from now on.


thanks,

Takashi