Chuck Ebbert wrote:

Multiple users report the PCMCIA Audigy 2 adapter hangs the machine in 2.6.21 while it work OK in 2.6.20:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=242208

Which version of ALSA is this using?

cat /proc/asound/version Has it correctly identified the sound card? cat /proc/asound/cards

I don't think that anything has changed in the driver between 2.6.20 and 2.6.21 that would affect this. That PCMCIA card can rather easily hang the machine due to it's design, but removing the PCMCIA card during the hang should release the hang state and the PC should continue. There was one case where it would continue to hang, but I believe I fixed that.

Please tell me the output of the above two cat commands, and I will then have a better idea of what the problem is.

Kind Regards

James

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Chuck Ebbert wrote:

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I don't think that anything has changed in the driver between 2.6.20 and 2.6.21 that would affect this. That PCMCIA card can rather easily hang the machine due to it's design, but removing the PCMCIA card during the hang should release the hang state and the PC should continue. There was one case where it would continue to hang, but I believe I fixed that.

In the hope that it helps, the initialization of the Audigy 2 ZS Notebook still succeeds on my laptop, but it does seem noisier then usual lately (this writing to ADC failed message): Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.14 (Thu May 31 09:03:25 2007 UTC). PCI: Enabling device 0000:05:00.0 (0000 -> 0001) ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:05:00.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 17 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:05:00.0 to 64 Audigy2 value: Special config. Writing to ADC failed! Writing to ADC failed! Writing to ADC failed! Writing to ADC failed! Writing to ADC failed! Writing to ADC failed! Writing to ADC failed! Writing to ADC failed! Writing to ADC failed! Writing to ADC failed! Writing to ADC failed! Writing to ADC failed! Writing to ADC failed! ALSA device list: #0: Audigy 2 ZS Notebook [SB0530] (rev.0, serial:0x20011102) at 0x3000, irq 17

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Please tell me the output of the above two cat commands, and I will then have a better idea of what the problem is.

0 [Audigy2 ]: Audigy2 - Audigy 2 ZS Notebook [SB0530] Audigy 2 ZS Notebook [SB0530] (rev.0, serial:0x20011102) at 0x3000, irq 17 1 [ICH6 ]: ICH4 - Intel ICH6 Intel ICH6 with AD1981B at irq 22

And the interrupt routing: CPU0 0: 412580 IO-APIC-edge timer 1: 10 IO-APIC-edge i8042 8: 2 IO-APIC-edge rtc 9: 2671 IO-APIC-fasteoi acpi 12: 149 IO-APIC-edge i8042 14: 132742 IO-APIC-edge libata 15: 37617 IO-APIC-edge libata 17: 205632 IO-APIC-fasteoi yenta, uhci_hcd:usb2, EMU10K1, i915@pci:0000:00:02.0 19: 43447 IO-APIC-fasteoi ehci_hcd:usb1, uhci_hcd:usb5 20: 377 IO-APIC-fasteoi uhci_hcd:usb3, sdhci:slot0 21: 341744 IO-APIC-fasteoi uhci_hcd:usb4 22: 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi Intel ICH6 23: 56606 IO-APIC-fasteoi ipw2200 NMI: 0 LOC: 144023 ERR: 0 MIS: 0

For reference, my CardBus controller: 04:00.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev 8d) Subsystem: IBM Unknown device 0555 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 168 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 17 Region 0: Memory at a0200000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] Bus: primary=04, secondary=05, subordinate=06, sec-latency=176 Memory window 0: d0000000-d3fff000 (prefetchable) Memory window 1: a4000000-a7fff000 I/O window 0: 00003000-000030ff I/O window 1: 00003400-000034ff BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- ISA- VGA- MAbort- >Reset- 16bInt- PostWrite+ 16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001

Audigy itself: 05:00.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB0400 Audigy2 Value Subsystem: Creative Labs Unknown device 2001 Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 64 (500ns min, 5000ns max) Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 17 Region 0: I/O ports at 3000 [size=64] Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-

This is a ThinkPad X41.

Also, I would like to say that although this card works on an x86 laptop, it has severe difficulties in a PowerBook. In that machine it can not be hotplugged, and needs to be inserted before powerup, and removal with the power on results in a kernel oops.

Before I forget, this is on vanilla: Linux deep-blue 2.6.22-rc5 #1 Sun Jun 17 23:23:55 BST 2007 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.60GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

If I can help by giving you more information, let me know.

Regards, Tony V.