Hi.
I have a laptop with the 82440MX chipset, on which I have run 0.5.1x alsa drivers for a long time with no problems. Recently, I tested the 0.9.0rc1, and the snd-intel8x0 driver no longer works satisfactorily. The first time I loaded it, no sound was output, regardless of how loud I turned (all) mixer settings with alsamixer. Then I tried to unload/load it, only to have modprobe segfault, and lsmod told me the module was in the (initalizing) phase. After a few hours, when it still hadn't recovered from this phase, I rebooted. After the reboot, I managed to play a few seconds worth of sound (if I were to guess, it'd be one of no more than a couple of DMA-fulls of sound). The driver seems to have gotten into a state where it cannot accept more data, and play (from sox) times out and exits when it cannot feed the sound device properly. The problem persist, regardless of whether I go through the snd-pcm-oss interface or the alsa interface (mpg321 -o alsa, mpg321 -o oss). Unloading/reloading the driver (after the reboot, this works without segfaulting, if I use insmod) does not help the situation. I also tried insmod snd-intel8x0 snd_ac97_clock=41194 to no avail. Starting any sound outputting program (including cat <somefile> > /dev/dsp) gives a very short burst of static, then stops. I run it with the 2.4.19 kernel, and with preempt, low-latency and 1000HZ patches. I have seen mentions of instability with the intel8x0 driver in recent posts, is this a known problem ? Is alsa 0.9 known not to work with either of the above kernel patches ? Kind regards, Karl T _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
