Re: Linux 2.6.14: Total lockup using aplaymidi

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

At Mon, 07 Nov 2005 15:22:34 -0500,
Lee Revell wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 11:39 +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > At Sat, 5 Nov 2005 20:44:39 +0000 (GMT),
> > Chris Rankin wrote:
> > > 
> > > --- Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> wrote:
> > > > I want to know whether this happens _without_ snd-rtctimer, but with
> > > > the very same system.
> > > 
> > > My "unalsa" alias works fine if seq_default_timer_device = 0. My machine has also locked up once
> > > with the new patch and aplaymidi when aplaymidi forced the snd-rtctimer module to autoload.
> > > However, this time, the machine actually played the MIDI file before locking up.
> > 
> > Then, we have to fix rtc.c itself.  The patch is below.  I'll submit
> > it to stable tree, too, if it works.
> > BTW, in the latest cvs, rtctimer is disabled because of this bug.
> 
> This may not be accepted by the -stable maintainers, it's too big
> complex.  I've sent them much simpler patches for emu10k1 regressions
> that got rejected.

Right.  But this bug is more serious, so let's hope it'll get merged.


Takashi


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