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From: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
To: jgarzik@pobox.com (Jeff Garzik)
Cc: ed@efix.biz (Edward Tandi),
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (Kernel mailing list),
	alan@redhat.com
Subject: Re: 2.4.21-pre3 kernel crash
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 04:08:53 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200301280908.h0S98rT26148@devserv.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030127205719.GB20873@gtf.org> from "Jeff Garzik" at Jan 27, 2003 03:57:19 PM

> > certain applications (gaim, macromedia flash player 6 for example), esd
> > gets itself into some kind of hung/blocked state. When this happens, I
> > need to kill esd and re-start it. Games and xmms work however. The
> > reason I ask about this is that the downloaded driver from the viaarena
> > works on a stock kernel without this glitch. Is this a known problem?
> > 
> > The chip is a VT8235 and I'm happy that it mostly works in pre3 too. The
> > alsa driver reportedly works OK.
> 
> hmmm, not a known problem to me.  Alan?

I have an idea actually, and if so a quickfix for Arjan. What happens is

	app -> open /dev/audio	(gets the 6 channel audio)
	app2 (esd) -> open /dev/audio1 (gets the secondary dsp)

or app2 opens /dev/audio and we have a close v open wakeup bug. 

I will investigate both paths

  reply	other threads:[~2003-01-28  8:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-27 15:41 2.4.21-pre3 kernel crash Martin MOKREJŠ
2003-01-27 16:53 ` Ross Biro
2003-01-27 17:13   ` Martin MOKREJŠ
2003-01-27 19:23     ` Jens Axboe
2003-01-27 20:27       ` Edward Tandi
2003-01-27 20:36         ` Jeff Garzik
2003-01-27 20:47           ` Edward Tandi
2003-01-27 20:57             ` Jeff Garzik
2003-01-28  9:08               ` Alan Cox [this message]
2003-01-28 10:50         ` Martin MOKREJŠ
2003-01-27 23:18       ` J.A. Magallon
2003-01-27 23:24         ` Jens Axboe
2003-01-28  0:02           ` J.A. Magallon
2003-01-27 19:03   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-01-27 19:21     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-01-27 19:25     ` Jens Axboe
2003-01-27 19:45     ` Alan Cox
2003-01-27 19:49       ` Jens Axboe
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-01-28 16:41 Larry Sendlosky
2003-01-28 22:06 ` Jens Axboe
2003-01-29  8:23   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-01-29  8:53     ` Jens Axboe
2003-01-29  9:44       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-01-29 10:16         ` Jens Axboe
2003-01-29  8:23 Benjamin Herrenschmidt

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