Takashi Iwai wrote:
At Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:15:00 +0200, Guillem Solà wrote:
Takashi Iwai wrote:
At Fri, 09 Oct 2009 11:19:04 +0200, Guillem Solà wrote:
Hi,
I have a Creative XFi PCIe with ca0110-IBG chip. It's primary use is audio input for streaming on a brand new Dell server with RHEL. I have been testing latest kernel 2.6.31 through it's releases candidates and the card stoped working on 2.6.31-rc6, so now I'm stuck at 2.6.31-rc5. With rc5 I made a 2 weeks test and it went flawlessly.
There's another guy who referenced this issue on http://mailman.alsa-project.org/pipermail/alsa-devel/2009-September/020876.h... and Takashi Iwai said that there is a communication error between the codec and the controller.
Any workaround? Is there a bug created related to this issue?
I tried to "extract" the alsa-driver on 2.6.31-rc5 and install it 2.6.31 final without success. Also tried to get old snapshots from alsa-driver and alsa-kmirror but I cannot compile them. Any place where get some info about how to create
Then some codes added after rc5 regressed? The candidates are not so many but a few:
deadff1665491afce124a8ff83f00f784161f660 ALSA: hda: track CIRB/CORB command/response states for each codec
a678cdee25a387c8fc3b2754974695412baf1d85 ALSA: hda: take cmd_mutex in probe_codec()
cdb1fbf23181c133fb24f12ad14ccea7dc399599 ALSA: hda: take reg_lock in azx_init_cmd_io/azx_free_cmd_io
c32649feb4573b31f0a2bfdf35cbe1351256c764 ALSA: hda: read CORBWP inside reg_lock
feb273404f15d86098cb0e81e46330d5c1e22b1b ALSA: hda: remember last command for each codec
The suspicious changes are the first one and the third one. But, anyway, it'd be helpful if you can bisect these.
If you can use git, git-bisect would be the best to try. Do bisect only for changes in sound/pci/hda directory between 2.6.31-rc5 and rc6.
thanks,
Takashi
Ok I read how to do bisect with git and so on. Also take latest alsa from git.
Now the question is do I have to do bisect from alsa-kernel? (that's what I'm trying now) but that implies recompile kernel in every step, isn't it?
If you can build the kernel by yourself, and you already find that 2.6.31-rc5 works as is, I recommend you to bisect the kernel tree.
As mentioned, the commits to bisect are only for sound/pci/hda directory, and there aren't so many. You can just rebuild the module with "make M=sound/pci/hda" during bisecting.
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Thanks for all,
This is a log about how is it going. I think I'm doing things right.
I have to reboot every time because I cannot get the soundcard work again.
I started from 2.6.31-rc6, compiled and installed it and then reboot to my 2.6.31-rc6 from git.
# git bisect start -- sound/pci/hda/ # git bisect good v2.6.31-rc5 # git bisect bad Bisecting: 6 revisions left to test after this [feb273404f15d86098cb0e81e46330d5c1e22b1b] ALSA: hda: remember last command for each codec -- HAVE TO REBOOT -- # make M=sound/pci/hda # make modules_install M=sound/pci/hda
# /etc/init.d/alsasound stop # rmmod snd_hda_codec_ca0110 # rmmod snd_hda_codec # /etc/init.d/alsasound start
- HAVE TO REBOOT CANNOT GET CARD WORKING AGAIN--
# git bisect log git bisect start 'sound/pci/hda/' # good: [ed680c4ad478d0fee9740f7d029087f181346564] Linux 2.6.31-rc5 git bisect good ed680c4ad478d0fee9740f7d029087f181346564 # bad: [64f1607ffbbc772685733ea63e6f7f4183df1b16] Linux 2.6.31-rc6 git bisect bad 64f1607ffbbc772685733ea63e6f7f4183df1b16
# git bisect bad Bisecting: 2 revisions left to test after this [a678cdee25a387c8fc3b2754974695412baf1d85] ALSA: hda: take cmd_mutex in probe_codec()
# /etc/init.d/alsasound stop # make modules_install M=sound/pci/hda # /etc/init.d/alsasound start # /etc/init.d/alsasound stop # modprobe snd-hda-codec-ca0110 # /etc/init.d/alsasound start
- HAVE TO REBOOT CANNOT GET CARD WORKING AGAIN--