Re: sound blaster hangs in recent kernels
Trevor Johnson (trevor@jpj.net)
Sat, 3 Jan 1998 21:57:27 -0800 (PST)
> I've had a couple of total system lockups when playing MPEG audio files under
> recent 2.1.x kernels. It seems that when the system is under some load while
> playing the sound it may just totally hang (machine doesn't respond to the
> keyboard and can't be pinged). I don't have magic-sysrq so I can't test with
> that.
I just experienced one while catting a file to /dev/audio. The computer
wasn't doing much else at the time. The lockups I reported earlier happen
even in single-user mode.
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Trevor Johnson