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 ----- Jaroslav Kysela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer ALSA Project http://www.alsa-project.org SuSE Linux http://www.suse.com _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user