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

Raymond
2005-04-30T10:24:52Z

au8820 is working on a NForce3-based AMD64 box

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

bugtrack@alsa-project.org wrote:
> 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
> ======================================================================
> Project: ALSA - driver
> Issue ID: 1047
> Category: PCI - au88x0
> Reproducibility: sometimes
> Severity: block
> Priority: normal
> Status: assigned
> Distribution: Mandrake
> Kernel Version: 2.6.7
> ======================================================================
> Date Submitted: 04-12-2005 20:43 CEST
> Last Modified: 04-12-2005 20:51 CEST
> ======================================================================
> 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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>
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> alien999999999 - 04-12-05 20:48
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> i forgot to note that i have the mdk 10.1 x86_64 distro and my version has
> a few 64bit fixes to get past kernel hangs and kernel oopses
>
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> alien999999999 - 04-12-05 20:51
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> i have attached the changed files (since i don't have a CVS version of alsa
> to diff against)
>
> these files are located in the alsa-driver-1.0.8/alsa-kernel/pci/au88x0/
> path
>
> Issue History
> Date Modified Username Field Change
> ======================================================================
> 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
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>
>
>
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