From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <38EAD4E8.61CD5BCA@astro.wisc.edu> Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 00:53:44 -0500 From: Matt Haffner Reply-To: haffner@astro.wisc.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linux Dev List Subject: XFree 4 & sound problems Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: I'm a little confused why there is a problem with XFree 4 and sound since I wouldn't think XFree does anything with it, but I'm getting hard freezes when playing MP3's in XMMS and mpg123 whenever I do significant X actions (switching desktops, starting Netscape, mousing a menu, etc.). If I just let things go and don't touch anything, it plays fine. The freeze requires a reset button reboot--the machine is not reachable at all (i.e. it's not just X). I'm on a rev. 1 B&W with a 2K install and 2.2.15pre14. These are the only kernel sound flags set in my build: CONFIG_SOUND=y CONFIG_DMASOUND=y CONFIG_SOUND_OSS=y (tried 'n' as well here since I thought dma took care of it all) I suppose it could be a more subtle interaction with the new kernel as well. I had pre3 originally but had to upgrade for XFree 4 USB. However, I can play songs from a VT without running X with mpg123 without trouble. Also, if I switch back to Xpmac.r128, everything works again without crashing even under the new kernel. Anyone else having this problem? I'm happy to muck around if you have an idea where I can start looking for the problem. Is enabling any of the kernel debugging options worthwhile in these hard freezes or is it too quick to trigger any useful dumping? mh -- Matt Haffner /|------|\ University of Wisconsin Dept. of Astronomy /|--------|\ Madison haffner@astro.wisc.edu /|----------|\ WHAM project -- http://www.astro.wisc.edu/wham ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/