From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 20 Sep 2001 08:07:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 20 Sep 2001 08:07:14 -0400 Received: from mail4.svr.pol.co.uk ([195.92.193.211]:40214 "EHLO mail4.svr.pol.co.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 20 Sep 2001 08:07:00 -0400 Message-ID: <3BA9DBED.9020401@humboldt.co.uk> Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 13:07:09 +0100 From: Adrian Cox User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.4+) Gecko/20010914 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: tegeran@home.com CC: t.sailer@alumni.ethz.ch, Thomas Sailer , jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: via82cxxx_audio locking problems In-Reply-To: <3BA9AB43.C26366BF@scs.ch> <01092004333500.00182@c779218-a> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Nicholas Knight wrote: > thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou > Adrian Cox was working on this after I raised the issue on the list, but > nobody got anywhere. All we knew was that there were temporary lockups > appearing when anything was using the mixer. This is the right answer. The reason some of us didn't see a problem may actually be quite simple: we were using very small buffers in xmms. Once I increased the xmms buffer size the problem became visible. -- Adrian Cox http://www.humboldt.co.uk/