From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Takashi Iwai Subject: Re: PCM broken in ALSA CVS (on Linux 2.6.3) Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2004 11:07:14 +0100 Sender: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: References: <20040303215311.76587.qmail@web40602.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.5 - "Awara-Onsen") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20040303215311.76587.qmail@web40602.mail.yahoo.com> Errors-To: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: Chris Rankin Cc: alsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org 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 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click