From: Jan De Luyck <lkml@kcore.org>
To: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6.9-rc2] ALSA nm256 driver causes system lockup
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 17:55:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200409281755.14844.lkml@kcore.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <s5h655y1jjs.wl@alsa2.suse.de>
On Tuesday 28 September 2004 17:48, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> At Tue, 28 Sep 2004 14:47:17 +0200,
>
> Jan De Luyck wrote:
> > Hello list,
> >
> > I'm trying to configure a laptop (Dell Latitude CXs) with 2.6.9-rc2. All
> > runs well, except the ALSA nm256 driver for the Neomagic Audio chip.
> > Loading this driver results in an immediate and complete system
> > lockup....
> >
> > I've tried appending "vaio_hack=1" on the kernel command line, but that
> > didn't really do anything.
> >
> > ALSA is compiled as modules.
> >
> > Any pointers?
>
> Try to load snd-nm256 driver before X. The chip uses the video RAM
> for the sound buffer. It seems that X clears all video RAM that
> confuses the sound driver. I.e. if you already started X, there is no
> way back :)
Yups, so I read in the documentation accompanying the kernel. It's being
loaded by hotplug during bootup, but even at that early stage it locks up
completely.
Jan
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-28 12:47 [2.6.9-rc2] ALSA nm256 driver causes system lockup Jan De Luyck
2004-09-28 15:48 ` Takashi Iwai
2004-09-28 15:55 ` Jan De Luyck [this message]
2004-09-28 16:22 ` Takashi Iwai
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