[ALSA - driver 0001047]: module hangs at seemingly random times

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A NOTE has been added to this issue.
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<https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=1047> 
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Reported By:                alien999999999
Assigned To:                mjander
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Project:                    ALSA - driver
Issue ID:                   1047
Category:                   PCI - au88x0
Reproducibility:            sometimes
Severity:                   block
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     assigned
Distribution:               Mandrake
Kernel Version:             2.6.7
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Date Submitted:             04-12-2005 20:43 CEST
Last Modified:              01-18-2006 15:51 CET
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Summary:                    module hangs at seemingly random times
Description: 
sometimes i start playing a song, and it starts playing a few second or so
and hangs, then i kill the application and modprobe -r all sound modules
and modprobe them again to make it work again.

BUT: sometimes not only that happens, but also when i try to kill the apps
it will not kill. when that happens, all kill, killall, top, ps aux
commands hang at the command line and cannot be killed by CTRL-C or
otherwise, i have been able to see that when i stopped my display
managener I did an lsmod and it gave something like this:

snd-pcm-oss            59752  11
snd-mixer-oss          20480  1 snd-pcm-oss
snd-au8810             43760  220
snd-ac97-codec         83408  1 snd-au8810
snd-pcm               108172  112 snd-pcm-oss,snd-au8810,snd-ac97-codec
snd-page-alloc         10384  1 snd-pcm
gameport                3840  1 snd-au8810
snd-mpu401-uart        11904  1 snd-au8810


as you can see the snd-au8810 module seem to have an impossible number of
"dependencies" (i think has to do with the number of unclosed sound-apps
trying to be played; this could be since gaim is programmed to execute an
'aplay %s')

i've had this major crash below only 3 times; and the logs didn't detect
anything specific at the time. the only thing the logs mentioned at that
time was an ntpd sync going on; so the only thing i can think of is that
at a certain moment when a sync is going on, some kind of lock is holding
cause this to happen... the only thing that i can do to fix this is
reset...

it is interesting to note that i also have an snd-emu10k1 as second card,
which never gave problems like this, and i am always able to "modprobe -r
snd-emu10k1" ...
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 Raymond - 01-17-06 12:27 
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The function vortex_EqHw_SetLevels() only set 20 eq peaks and 4 other
registers, so eq_levels[] need 24 values instead of 64 values.


Index: alsa-driver/alsa-kernel/pci/au88x0/au88x0_eqdata.c
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RCS file: /cvsroot/alsa/alsa-kernel/pci/au88x0/au88x0_eqdata.c,v
retrieving revision 1.2
diff -u -r1.2 au88x0_eqdata.c
--- alsa-driver/alsa-kernel/pci/au88x0/au88x0_eqdata.c	13 Jan 2006
17:16:29 -0000	1.2
+++ alsa-driver/alsa-kernel/pci/au88x0/au88x0_eqdata.c	17 Jan 2006
09:55:43 -0000
@@ -104,12 +104,7 @@
 };
 
 /*_rodataba0:*/
-static u16 eq_levels[64] = {
-	0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000,
-	0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000,
-	0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000,
-	0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000,
-	0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000,
+static u16 eq_levels[24] = {
 	0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000,
 	0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000,
 	0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000, 0x0000

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 Raymond - 01-18-06 15:51 
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- fix the init of codec interface of au8810 and au8830
- enable the rear pcm slots when codec is quad

http://savannah.nongnu.org/patch/?func=detailitem&item_id=3948

Issue History
Date Modified  Username       Field                    Change              
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04-12-05 20:43 alien999999999 New Issue                                    
04-12-05 20:43 alien999999999 Distribution              => Mandrake        
04-12-05 20:43 alien999999999 Kernel Version            => 2.6.7           
04-12-05 20:48 alien999999999 Note Added: 0004461                          
04-12-05 20:49 alien999999999 File Added: au88x0.c                         
04-12-05 20:49 alien999999999 File Added: au88x0.h                         
04-12-05 20:50 alien999999999 File Added: au88x0_core.c                    
04-12-05 20:50 alien999999999 File Added: au88x0_mixer.c                    
04-12-05 20:51 alien999999999 Note Added: 0004462                          
08-24-05 11:13 Raymond        Note Added: 0005928                          
10-27-05 02:27 Raymond        Note Added: 0006564                          
01-03-06 04:04 Raymond        Note Added: 0007397                          
01-04-06 22:08 alien999999999 Note Added: 0007455                          
01-05-06 07:21 Raymond        Note Added: 0007462                          
01-05-06 20:32 shurick        Issue Monitored: shurick                     
01-06-06 17:17 alien999999999 Note Added: 0007488                          
01-06-06 17:33 alien999999999 File Added: alsa-cvs-2006-01-04.patch             
      
01-13-06 13:51 Raymond        Note Added: 0007639                          
01-13-06 18:18 tiwai          Note Added: 0007648                          
01-14-06 04:53 Raymond        Note Added: 0007653                          
01-14-06 05:00 Raymond        Note Edited: 0007653                         
01-17-06 12:27 Raymond        Note Added: 0007697                          
01-18-06 15:51 Raymond        Note Added: 0007710                          
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