On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Ryan Shaw wrote:
> Hello Andrew,
>
> Andrew Nesbit wrote:
>
> > Hi guys, I hope someone can help me. My new soundcard is the M-Audio
> > Audiophile 2496 with ALSA drivers 0.9beta12 (no OSS emulation) on a
> > Debian Woody system:
> >
> > anima:/usr/src/linux# uname -a
> > Linux anima 2.4.17 #1 SMP Mon Apr 22 19:51:57 EST 2002 i686 unknown
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > Anytime I try to, for example, play sound, the entire system
> > completely freezes.
>
> Bad news. Unless you have a Windows box to put it in, you wasted your
> money on the Audiophile 2496.
>
> I have the same setup as you, and the same problem. See my bug report:
>
> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=518443&group_id=27464&atid=390601
>
> This report is using the CVS sources from 2/17, but the 0.9beta12 Debian
> source package exhibits the same problem.
>
> I was able to stop the hard freezes by compiling a non-SMP kernel. But
> that is not really a solution, since I'd really like to use my second CPU.
>
> However, it did finally confirm that the problem is a broken driver, not
> misconfiguration.
>
> My suggestion is to do what I plan to do: buy an OSS-supported soundcard
> and try ALSA again in a year or two to see if it works then.
Or send developers an useable bug-report. Have you tried to enable
spinlock debugging in kernel debugging section when you compiled linux
kernel?
bool ' Spinlock debugging' CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK
Jaroslav
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Jaroslav Kysela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer
ALSA Project http://www.alsa-project.org
SuSE Linux http://www.suse.com
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