Sound module does not work in 2.1.63 (Was: testing Pentium bug workaround..)

Eugene Crosser (crosser@average.org)
14 Nov 1997 09:24:29 GMT


In article <Pine.LNX.3.95.971112111817.25994C-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> writes:

> 2.1.63 does other things too: it updates the sound driver and the cyclades

I have a 486 and a SondBlaster 16. I compile sound driver as a module.
When the module is tried to be loaded loaded by the kerneld, I get the
following:

<00000000/00000014>
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000014
current->tss.cr3 = 009c8000, *r3 = 009c8000
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0002
CPU: 0
EIP: 0010:[<c181af05>]
EFLAGS: 00010246
eax: 00000000 ebx: 00000000 ecx: 00000007 edx: 00000005
esi: 0000008c edi: 00000000 ebp: c181eb34 esp: c09c7ec4
ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
Process insmod (pid: 90, process nr: 14, stackpage=c09c7000)
Stack: c18091bb c181eb34 00000000 400f4308 c1834300 00000000 00000005 c1809215
c18086ef c18087df c1808000 00000000 00000000 c010b4ec c1808000 400d9a38
c1819a30 00000000 c1808048 c0109910 c1808000 00006a34 400c8050 400d9a38
Call Trace: [<c18091bb>] [<c181eb34>] [<c1834300>] [<c1809215>] [<c18086ef>] [<c18087df>] [<c1808000>]
[<c010b4ec>] [<c1808000>] [<c1819a30>] [<c1808048>] [<c0109910>] [<c1808000>] [<c1819a30>] [<c1808000>]
[<c1834300>] [<c0117953>] [<c1808048>] [<c010982a>]
Code: c7 40 14 00 00 80 00 c7 40 18 00 00 00 00 c7 40 54 00 00 00

`lsmod' says theat the sound module is `uninitialized', and the sound
does not work.

-- 
Eugene Crosser; 2:5020/230@fidonet; http://www.average.org/~crosser/