I have found this weird bug in the latest kernel release of the
sound driver (3.5-beta2) which I know is not the latest, but ftp.best.com
is too far away for me to access. Isn't there a European site on which
you can release your drivers on, Hannu?
Using the latest release of vplay, I tried to play a wav file, and
found that my machine appeared to be dead. Only the Shift/Ctrl-Scroll Lock
(of which I only found out about the other day) combination worked. If
I pressed a lot of keys, it reported 'keyboard error'. This wav file was
a 1 second, 16-bit, 44.1kHz Stereo sample that I had sampled myself.
Thinking that this had just crashed the keyboard driver, I tried to
get to my machine remotely but to find that it had dropped off the net
completely. Ping didn't even work. Testing revealed that it didn't happen
all the time, just most of the times I tried it, and never with older sound
drivers (alpha9 and lower). So it has only appeared since then.
It happened on my machine with a PAS16 and on my friend's machine
with a SB16. We were both using 3.5-beta2. If you want any more information
then let me know, but I have to hard reset every time it happens :(
Hannu, if you want a copy of the sound sample, I will email it to
you.
James
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