Re: PCM broken in ALSA CVS (on Linux 2.6.3)

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

At Wed, 3 Mar 2004 21:53:11 +0000 (GMT),
Chris Rankin wrote:
> 
> [Linux 2.6.3-SMP, single 933 MHz PIII, 1 GB RAM,
> devfs, gcc-3.2.3]
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have just installed the latest ALSA from CVS and
> discovered that it has broken PCM playback. This is
> what aplay gives me now:
> 
> $ aplay /usr/lib/sounds/jungle_exit.wav 
> Playing WAVE '/usr/lib/sounds/jungle_exit.wav' :
> Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 22050 Hz, Stereo
> ALSA lib pcm_params.c:2096:(snd_pcm_hw_refine_slave)
> Slave PCM not usable
> aplay: set_params:805: Broken configuration for this
> PCM: no configurations available
> 
> This is with a SB-Live! card.
> 
> Also, loading the snd-intel8x0 module for the
> motherboard's built-in sound device now gives me these
> messages in my kernel log:
> 
> Mar  3 21:27:21 twopit kernel: PCI: Setting latency
> timer of device 0000:00:1f.5 to 64
> Mar  3 21:27:22 twopit kernel: snd-page-alloc:
> releasing the used block (type=1, id=0x1
> Mar  3 21:27:22 twopit kernel: snd-page-alloc:
> releasing the used block (type=1, id=0x101
> Mar  3 21:27:22 twopit kernel: ALSA
> /home/chris/Programs/alsa/alsa-driver/pci/intel8x0.c:2263:
> no playback buffer allocated - aborting measure ac97
> clock
> 
> It's the last one which worries me, of course... ;-).

try to unload snd-page-alloc module after stopping ALSA.
alsasound init script doesn't unload snd-page-alloc intentionally.


CVS version is in heavy development right now.
don't expect that everything works as before.
it won't work with 2.2 and 2.4 kernels yet.


Takashi


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