Multisound Driver problem

From: Tony Reed (Callus@Sympatico.CA)
Date: Sun May 14 2000 - 09:13:18 EST


Hello: I hate to take up your time with this, but:

Under none of the 2.3.x versions of the kernel can I get my Multisound
Classic sound card to work, either as a loadable module, or compiled into
the kernel. Under 2.2.14 it works fine, both ways.

I've sent e-mails to Andrew Veliath <andrewtv@usa.net> but I'm not sure
if he's still maintaining the driver; there doesn't seem to have been any updates
since 1998.

Bear with me here, be gentle: if I had the expertise to debug this at the level
that Mr Torvalds suggests is necessary (in the oops doc), I'd be able to fix
it myself.

Here is the output of dmesg, including the oops file:

-----
msnd_classic: Starting write for c30471a0
msnd: Enabling IRQ
Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 000d0000
 printing eip:
c01ebd4c
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0002
CPU: 0
EIP: 0010:[<c01ebd4c>]
EFLAGS: 00010016
eax: 00002400 ebx: 00002400 ecx: 00000900 edx: 00003e04
esi: c4800000 edi: 000d0000 ebp: c02fe5e8 esp: c3041f4c
ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
Process sox (pid: 493, stackpage=c3041000)
Stack: 00003e04 00000000 00000202 00000001 00000000 c01ee274 c02fe5e8 000d0000
       00002400 00000000 c30471a0 ffffffea 00000000 c30471a0 c30472a0 00000000
       00000000 c01ee491 08083e84 00003e04 c012de9c c30471a0 08080080 00003e04
Call Trace: [<c01ee274>] [<c01ee491>] [<c012de9c>] [<c010aff4>]
Code: f3 a5 f6 c3 02 74 02 66 a5 f6 c3 01 74 01 a4 01 5c 24 10 01
-----

Here is the output of ver_linux:

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Linux kubrick 2.3.99-pre8 #1 Fri May 12 23:42:16 EDT 2000 i586 unknown
Kernel modules 2.1.121
Gnu C egcs-2.91.66
Binutils 2.9.1.0.24
Linux C Library 2.1.2
Dynamic linker ldd (GNU libc) 2.1.2
Procps 2.0.4
Mount 2.9u
Net-tools 1.53
Console-tools 1999.03.02
Sh-utils 2.0
Modules Loaded
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This was with (as you see) the driver compiled into the kernel. I've tried
moving the "memory window" for the driver around, but the same thing
happens. This has been the case since I first started playing with the 2.3.x
kernel, sometime arount 2.3.35. The driver and card and the resident firmware
are found at bootup, and the dsp gets happily reset.

This is an ancient sound card, and I can certainly replace it cheaply, but I thought
that you should be aware of this problem.

Thanks for all the time and effort you spend in creating GNU/Linux!

--
Tony Reed
<CallUs@Sympatico.CA>

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