On Die, 2003-03-18 at 23:23, Sven Herzing wrote: 

> I try to get alsa working on my Powerbook G3 Pismo with debian unstable 
> installed. I installed the alsa 0.9 packages and build the modules as 
> described in the readme file. After install the modules I tried to get 
> alsa working, but when I start alsa with "/etc/init.d/alsa start" I got 
> in the upper part of my display a program which looks a bit like the 
> open firmware. The output is the following:
> 
> vector: 300 at pc = c0013a44, lr = c0013a14
> msr = 1032, sp = cf691e60 [cf691db0]
> dar = 0, dsisr = 40000000
> current = cf690000, pid = 1877, comm alsactl
> mon>

That's xmon, a simple kernel debugger.

> after typing a bit arround I've seen that I can quit this monitor 
> program, but xmms or aumix crashes at this point.

Because the kernel oopsed, hence xmon appeared.

> Has anyone seen this bevor or a suggestion how I can get arround this 
> problem.

Fix the cause of the crash, or don't use ALSA. :)


-- 
Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member   /  CS student, Free Software enthusiast

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