From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "J. Solomon Kostelnik" Subject: Sound-related hard-locking Date: 12 Dec 2002 11:12:14 -0500 Sender: linux-msdos-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <1039709536.2373.11.camel@jsk.one.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: DOSEMU List I've been having a problem with DOSEMU causing my machine to hardlock when using sound. At first I thought it was only caused by using sound in DOSEMU. But last night the same thing happened when I was playing an MP3 with XMMS and then booted XDOS (without midid running). As soon as the XDOS window opened, my machine hard-locked. No mouse, no keyboard, music stopped, etc. Hard reset needed. Previously, this was happening with certain DOS games using MIDI music, such as "The Sword of Shannara." If I loaded midid, then opened XDOS, then ran this game, when the MIDI music was supposed to start playing, my machine would hard lock. However, midid works just fine with another DOS game, Ascendency, so I don't know what's different between the two. Specs: Toshiba PII-400 Laptop, 192mb ram + 225mb swap, Mandrake Linux 8.2 w/ vanilla 2.4.18 kernel, Gnome 1.2.4 with sawfish, dosemu 1.1.3.7 with all the "experimental patches" applied. Sound card is a ESS ES1978 Maestro 2E. Is there a way I can log this before it crashes and get any meaningful data before it happens? If not, I've given you all the info I think is relevant. Let me know if you need more. Solomon