I think I've discovered one common feature when I have semaphore errors with my intel8x0 card. It seems to happen only when the machine has a network connection. I'm not absolutely sure about this, but I'm pretty sure.
Today, I tested the sound for some time. I played a DVD, did a few other things, no problem. Finally, I decided to load the wireless modules (with ndiswrapper, for now) and within ten minutes, the semaphore error I described below reared it's ugly head. The same error occurs when I use the onboard ethernet card, so it's not the ndiswrapper, I think. Is the active network connection plausibly connected to this problem? Or am I guilty of a post hoc fallacy? Thanks much. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jesse F. Hughes) writes: > What happens? At boot time, sometimes the alsa modules fail to load. > I get a message to the effect that the sound card is not ready or > something similar, but I don't have an example of that message at > hand, sorry. Other times, the card starts up fine. It plays for a > while, often with sound (say, from a CD) a bit choppy. Then, after a > while, it just stops, with the message > > Feb 25 09:27:09 euclid kernel: ALSA sound/pci/intel8x0.c:591: codec_write 0: sem > aphore is not ready for register 0x2c > Feb 25 09:27:09 euclid kernel: ALSA sound/pci/intel8x0.c:607: codec_read 0: sema > phore is not ready for register 0x2c > > in /var/log/syslog. > > The error condition is unpredictable, as far as I can tell. *But*, > I've noticed that sometimes it occurs when I slightly jar the laptop > or when I close the lid (I don't currently use ACPI). Other times, it > just happens to happen. > > Could it be hardware related? > > I haven't reproduced the error in Windows the few times I've booted > into it to try. I don't use Windows and I maintain a dual boot only > because this is my employer's machine. It's possible I just haven't > seen the problem there. The laptop manufacturer is no help at all. > > Just give me any clue where to look *please*. I have run out of > ideas. I don't have any idea what the error message is supposed to > mean to me. > > I'm using a 2.6.3 kernel on Slack 9.1. > > Thanks much. -- "[R]eality has a fascinating ability to check us when we get a little too big for our britches... Make no mistake. There isn't a mathematician alive today that I can't now touch, and not a mathematical career on the planet that I can't now affect." --James Harris, render of worlds ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
