Strange, it works well here both alsa version although 0.5.12 has wrong frequecy, 0.5.10 is fine and 0.9.0rc1 fine.... this is a i810 box, ac97 ...
try to test the standard kernel; recent kernel has some memory agp bug with i81x chip set which has not been resolved. Until 2.4.19-pre6 it is ok. May be it relates to your sound problem and performance of 2.4.19-pre6 is great! even without preempt patch. Best luck, > 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 ===== Steve Kieu http://travel.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Travel - Plan and book your dream holiday online! _______________________________________________________________ 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
