Sound still hard-locks my computer:
Dual 166MMX
Buslogic SCSI
Awe 32 *OR* Plain SB16
Most recently tested kernel: 2.1.125+ac2.
On Mon, 12 Oct 1998, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> Well, don't worry, that's what I have but:
>
> examine the following situation:
>
> - cat /dev/sndstat
> - the `sound' feature is requested from kerneld
> - using modules.conf, kerneld loads up cs4232.o and all the things it
> depends on
> - a minute passes
> - kerneld sees that cs4232.o is not used and unloads it.
> The key point here is that it doesn't unload the other modules yet
> (they'll have to wait for the next minute)
> - cat /dev/sndstat
> - kerneld is *not* contacted to load cs4232.o since sound.o is already loaded
> and already provides the requested kernel symbols
>
> Same problem with `midi' vs `sound'. As long as sound.o is loaded, no `midi'
> or `sound' request will ever make it to kerneld even though the midi feature
> might not have been loaded yet (or might have been unloaded already).
>
> So how do you fix that ? I know `options -k sound cs4232.o' "solves"
> part of the problem by preventing unloading. But I *want* the sound
> modules to be unloaded
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