Hey ho. I've been struggling with a recurring semaphore problem since November and I've written here several times about it, but I've never found a solution to the problem. I'll ask again. I'll take anything. Heck, just tell me what the heck a semaphore *is* for that matter.
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. -- Jesse F. Hughes "And I'm one of my own biggest skeptics as I had *YEARS* of wrong ideas, and attempts that failed. Worse, for some of them it took *MONTHS* before I figured out where I screwed up." -- James Harris ------------------------------------------------------- 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
