27 Apr
2004
27 Apr
'04
3:06 p.m.
On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 11:33:03AM -0400, Dave Phillips wrote:
Greetings:
Last night I tried running the latest Dynebolic and AGNULA live discs
from my laptop and from Ivy's desktop machine. Both failed due to
different reasons. The desktop machine's CD-ROM drive is old, and I kept
getting looped in a 'bad read' error. The laptop is not so stable these
days, but both distros failed at the same point: they recognize the A/V
chipset (a NeoMagic NM256 piece o' crap) and stall there. I'll have the
laptop with me in Karlsruhe, maybe one of the gurus can help me with it
then ?
I have the cursed Neomagic 256 AV in my old Dell CPI-A.
I found that with Alsa, the system had a roughly 60% chance
of total lockup when loading the driver.
I had some back-and-forth email with Takashi which resulted
in some patches that made the driver less likely to freeze the
system, and at one point it was down to maybe a 10% chance of lockup.
But later releases of ALSA made it much worse again.
Eventually I gave up... I don't run audio on that laptop anymore :-(
On the random occasions that it managed to load, the driver worked fine :-\
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