thanks!!!!
Cheers....
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On Wed, 2 Sep 1998, [iso-8859-1] Mikko Hyvärinen wrote:
>> Hello all.
>>
>> Problem: If I try to play a sound with my SB AWE64 card under Linux 2.1.110 or newer kernels, the machine hangs completely after about 2 seconds. 2.1.119 has brought some alleviation to this problem, I once got over 10 seconds of audio before the machine hung.
>>
>> Description of the hang:
>> Nothing moves, not even the keyboard lights. SysRq doesn't work. Resetting or power cycling the machine are the only things that make a difference.
>>
>> Description of hardware:
>> - FIC PA-2012 rev. 1.12 motherboard, VIA Apollo VP3 chipset with 1MB cache
>> - 96MB (3 x 32MB) 66MHz SDRAM, identical DIMMs
>> - Intel Pentium 200MMX running at 3 x 75MHz (225Mhz)
>> - Matrox Millennium II 4MB AGP
>> - Creative SB AWE64 Value Edition
>> No other expansion cards are present. Do I need to tell more about this machine?
>>
>> Description of software:
>> - Linux kernels 2.1.110 - 2.1.119, tested all of them. Note: 2.1.xx sound support has never (since .43, my first dev kernel) worked for me
>> - Sound support compiled as modules and loaded with
>> /sbin/modprobe sound
>> /sbin/modprobe sb
>> - /etc/conf.modules contains the settings for module sb, as given below
>> - no matter what program is used to send data to /dev/dsp, it hangs. tried with x11amp, mpg123, sox and even dd, both under X and in console mode
>>
>> The sound card is configured for base 220, irq 5, dma 1/5, mpu base 330 by isapnputils. The same isapnp.conf is used when booting to 2.0.35 and it works fine. I have tried other settings (not overlapping with other devices) too with the same results.
>>
>> Some points to consider:
>> - the sound card doesn't show up in the Card config section of /dev/sndstat but all the associated devices are there
>> - the audio quality is superb until it hangs - so I get to hear the first couple of seconds of an MP3 before the hang
>> - the processor has run at 225MHz for 10 months without any problems on 2 different motherboards (just to shut up the "don't overclock" people)
>> - other operating systems (Win95, NT Workstation & Server 4.0) all work fine, including sound support using the same hardware settings
>> - 2.0.xx have _never_ had any trouble with the sound card
>> - there are no hardware base address, dma or irq conflicts (I always keep track of base/irq/dma resources by hand when adding/removing hardware)
>> - I haven't even tried the MIDI support nor loaded the modules, although I've enabled and compiled them as modules
>> - This has no relation to using the floppy drive simultaenously - it hangs either way
>>
>> Any and all constructive comments are welcome.
>>
>> -Mikko Hyvärinen
>>
>>
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