Re: alsa-0.9.3a : powermac locks machine hard

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

At Fri, 16 May 2003 07:36:29 +1000,
Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> 
> 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?

at first, please give the output of ksymoops if possible.
without this, it'll be much harder to spot out the bug point.

also, please try the cvs version.
i changed a bit the ppc code recently.
(note that you need to run snddevices script once with the recent cvs
 version, since we removed the dynamic device files on /proc.)


ciao,

Takashi


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