Re: sound crashes in 2.4

Alan Cox
2001-08-20T16:31:24Z

> I have the same problems with an ALS007 card (in a 486 system).
> The card is correctly recognized and set up by the PnP drivers.

Humm.

> The time after which it crashes is variable, sometimes it crashes
> immediately, sometimes it crashes after 5 minutes.
> Sometimes, it also stalls a few times before finally crashing.

Ok that actually sounds more like a locking bug.

> Both 2.4.8 and 2.4.9 have this problem (these are the ones I tried).
> Btw on 2.2.x i get DMA (output) timeout errors (and broken sound).

Can you try one other thing.

Edit drivers/pci/quirks.c

find

int isa_dma_bridge_buggy; /* Exported */

and make it read

int isa_dma_bridge_buggy = 1;

recompile reboot and see if it helps