Re: vanilla 2.6.0-test11 and CS4236 card

From: Takashi Iwai (tiwai_at_suse.de)
Date: 12/03/03

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    Date:	Wed, 03 Dec 2003 12:29:01 +0100
    To: trelane@digitasaru.net
    
    

    Hi,

    At Tue, 2 Dec 2003 21:17:51 -0600,
    Joseph Pingenot wrote:
    >
    > THE BAD NEWS:
    > -------------
    >
    > Both times (with your patch and with isapnp), I had the following problems:
    > a) xmms wouldn't talk straight to the card even after selecting the alsa
    > output plugin

    what was the error exactly?

    > b) I started esd (the alsa version) and then told xmms to talk to esd.
    > It worked out well for a couple of seconds, but then it crashed
    > (both with your patch and with the manually activated (isapnp) one)
    >
    > It crashed HARD.

    oh, that's bad.

    > It crashed so hard that it wiped out some files, like apt, I presume
    > when it was cleaning "orphans" in /; the net result is that my
    > box is semi-hosed, since things like tr and apt-get and route
    > are now full of '\0' characters instead of their actual contents.
    >
    > Sound played for about a second, then the machine hung hard (I don't think
    > that the Magic SysRq keys even did anything), and the last couple of
    > tenths of a second of sound just repeated over and over and over until
    > I hit reset. I don't have an oops; it was highly hosed.
    >
    > When I can pull my system back together, I can try again. Please help
    > me find this new bug, so that the cs4236 driver is safe for other
    > Dell P410 users! :)

    i'm puzzled because cs4236's pcm code is basically identical with
    cs4231, and cs4232 seems working (at least the last time i tested).
    anyway, please show the kernel config and check any other apps do
    similar oops / crash.

    --
    Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>		ALSA Developer - www.alsa-project.org
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