27 Apr
2004
27 Apr
'04
4:06 p.m.
Paul Winkler wrote:
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 :-\
This sounds like my experience with the cursed RME HDSP9652 before I
finally gave up. I didn't have the lockups. The machine just didn't load
the driver 90% of the time. The 10% of the time it did load it worked fine.
It had been much better in earlier version of Alsa and earlier kernels,
loading and working (sort of) 100% of the time, but then finally got so
bad it wasn't worth the time spent to make it work...
- Mark