From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Cree Subject: Re: [alsa-devel] [regression] 2.6.25-rc4 snd-es18xx broken on Alpha Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 22:13:08 +1300 Message-ID: <47EF59A4.4070300@orcon.net.nz> References: <20080318032427.298BCDBA2@gherkin.frus.com> <546A47FE-F98E-49E2-A250-41F65C2D482B@orcon.net.nz> <47E6338E.8030001@orcon.net.nz> <47E7EFDF.2070706@keyaccess.nl> <47E83F94.8010409@orcon.net.nz> <47E8475E.4080705@keyaccess.nl> <47E853F2.7020608@orcon.net.nz> <47E86203.5090805@keyaccess.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <47E86203.5090805@keyaccess.nl> Sender: linux-alpha-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Rene Herman Cc: Bob Tracy , Takashi Iwai , ALSA devel , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ivan Kokshaysky , linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org, Krzysztof Helt Rene Herman wrote: > On 25-03-08 02:22, Michael Cree wrote: > >>> should do it. Here's a file Bob passed me as a problematic one. >>> 8-bit, 11025, mono: >>> >>> http://members.home.nl/rene.herman/asskickd.wav >> >> Right, got that. On the PWS600au it shows the same problems that Bob >> describes! When I play it with aplay (through the es1887) I get the >> last "pal" repeated at the end. When I play it with sox (also through >> the es1887) I get the words "current event" repeated at the end. >> > Lovely, so different problem between you and Bob. When you (either of > you) have some time for it again, could you try: > > $ sox asskickd.wav -w -t alsa hw Exactly the same as without the -w option. (BTW, I would've never have guessed the -w option; my man file has -2 for conversion to 16 bit.) > $ sox asskickd.wav -w -r 44100 -t alsa hw The words "current event" are no longer repeated at the end of playing. There is a click at the end of playing - hard to know whether it started to repeat something or whether it is truly at the end of the sound file. > $ sox asskickd.wav -w -r 44100 -c 2 -t alsa hw Repeats the "al" bit of the last word "pal" at the end of playing. >> I suspect you are right - the symptoms I have observed (complete >> system crashes) are separate from what Bob observes. One question I >> have is what is different about Bob's set up that enables the sound to >> work with mmap? > > Not a clue. Takashi -- is it possible that Bob wasn't using mmap to > being with if he didn't do anything specific to not do so? > > And perhaps you guys have firmware settable options that touch that area > of coherent DMA? Maybe even a specific chipset bug on his machine? No > idea how different/similar your machines are... I have another PWS600au - a little older than the one I was testing on. It is slightly different in that its scsi controller is a separate board in a PCI slot, rather than on the motherboard. Also has an ESS1888 rather than an ESS1887. Just installed the same OS and kernel on it. Tried playing sound. What a mess. Crashes with mmap on. Installed the patch turning off mmap. Just produces buzzes and fart noises whatever sound file I try to play; both with aplay and sox. Michael.