30 Sep
2004
30 Sep
'04
6:34 a.m.
Jeremiah Benham wrote:
I have noticed since I switched to the 2.6 kernel tree
I have been having troubles with asfxload and sfxload. When I try to launch it hangs.
The program just sits their running and can't be killed. It does not use to many
clock cycles but I can't seem to kill it no matter what I do.
I tried killall asfxload and other tricks. I also tried to kill it with kde's process
management program but it still did not die. A few times it complained that
/dev/sequencer was not available no such device. I was wondering if there is something I
am doing wrong or if I should file a bug report. Anyone else experience
this?
sound card = SB live
Kernel = 2.6.2 (same problem with other versions of 2.6)
asfxload = ver.0.5.0c
me: kernel 2.6.5, sb live! platinum, asfxload 0.5.0b
launching asfxload by itself complains:
No Emux synth hwdep device is found
so I modprobe snd-hwdep and snd-emux-synth but it still complains
I tried asfxload and it looks like it's dead (waiting for some system
call) but it actually works, at least on my machine. However it takes
about 10+ hours to load soundfonts (yes, more then ten hours). Attach
strace to see what it's doing (it loads a bit and waits forever, loads
a bit and waits forever).
btw I think you need snd-seq module (maybe some other, I don't
remember, just look at what snd-* modules you have and load some:-)
I posted a message to alsa-user and here's what I've got (only one
response):
At Wed, 22 Sep 2004 05:32:38 -0700,
Erik Steffl wrote:
>
> I used to use sfxload to load soundfonts before and it worked (same
> soundfont file, same alsa install). I just tried the asfxload and it
> takes, so far, several hours to load the soundfont file.
Internally there is no big difference between sfxload and asfxload.
The latest CVS version has the __NORETRY flag indicating that the
driver doesn't wait when the page isn't available, so it won't take
hours but will lack some data.
Anyway, it's likely a kernel issue. There was a bugreport telling
that 2.6.9rc2-mm1 fixed the memory handling.
Takashi