Re: vanilla 2.6.0-test11 and CS4236 card

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

Hi,

At Tue, 2 Dec 2003 21:17:51 -0600,
Joseph Pingenot wrote:
> 
> THE BAD NEWS:
> -------------
> 
> Both times (with your patch and with isapnp), I had the following problems:
>   a) xmms wouldn't talk straight to the card even after selecting the alsa
>        output plugin

what was the error exactly?

>   b) I started esd (the alsa version) and then told xmms to talk to esd.
>        It worked out well for a couple of seconds, but then it crashed
>        (both with your patch and with the manually activated (isapnp) one)
>        
>        It crashed HARD.

oh, that's bad.

>        It crashed so hard that it wiped out some files, like apt, I presume
>          when it was cleaning "orphans" in /; the net result is that my
> 	 box is semi-hosed, since things like tr and apt-get and route
> 	 are now full of '\0' characters instead of their actual contents.
> 
> Sound played for about a second, then the machine hung hard (I don't think
>   that the Magic SysRq keys even did anything), and the last couple of
>   tenths of a second of sound just repeated over and over and over until
>   I hit reset.  I don't have an oops; it was highly hosed.
> 
> When I can pull my system back together, I can try again.  Please help
>   me find this new bug, so that the cs4236 driver is safe for other
>   Dell P410 users!  :)

i'm puzzled because cs4236's pcm code is basically identical with
cs4231, and cs4232 seems working (at least the last time i tested).
anyway, please show the kernel config and check any other apps do
similar oops / crash.


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Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>		ALSA Developer - www.alsa-project.org