[alsa-devel] Backported sbxfi driver (UNTESTED!)

[Xarteras]

Takashi Iwai wrote:
> At Fri, 17 Oct 2008 09:00:30 +0000,
> Xarteras wrote:
>> Takashi Iwai wrote:
>>> At Fri, 17 Oct 2008 10:26:27 +0400,
>>> The Source wrote:
>>>> Takashi Iwai пишет:
>>>>> At Thu, 16 Oct 2008 22:18:07 +0400,
>>>>> The Source wrote:
>>>>>   
>>>>>>>> Ok. OpenAL with alsa also seem to cause problems.
>>>>>>>>     
>>>>>>>>         
>>>>>>> In both cases, check the period_size and buffer_size values (shown in
>>>>>>> the kernel message, or /proc/asound/card0/pcm0p/sub0/hw_params).
>>>>>>> And, try to aplay with these parameters, whether you get the similar
>>>>>>> problem.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 	% aplay -v --period-size=xxx --buffer-size=yyy foo.wav
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Takashi
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>   
>>>>>>>       
>>>>>> I'm sorry, but any attemp to play file with ossplay results in complete 
>>>>>> system hang with error:
>>>>>> unable to handle NULL ponter dereference at address 
>>>>>> 0000000000000008.....(hang, no more output).
>>>>>> I tried many wav formats. So I can't get error log or period and buffer 
>>>>>> sizes, sorry.
>>>>>>     
>>>>> Can anyone confirm to reproduce Oops with OSS apps (ossplay)?
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm wondering whether this has anything to do with the capture.
>>>>> Can you record the sound, and change the capture mixer element properly?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> thanks,
>>>>>
>>>>> Takashi
>>>>>
>>>>>   
>>>> Err, I'm not sure I understand. Could you please explain step-by-step?
>>> Just run arecord to record something.  And, change the recording
>>> source via mixer.
>>>
>>> So far, I got little report about recording, and I'm not sure whether
>>> it works at all.
>> I just tested ossplay and arecord.
>> For me both result in a spontanous crash back to BIOS without leaving 
>> any traces in the log files.
>> Everything else works fine so far.
> 
> OK, then the problem is consistent.
> It's a bit tough to check without a proper log.
> How about running with strace?  What is the last syscall before the
> dead end?

I just noticed I still had a dsnoop/dmix set up and renamed asound.conf 
for retesting.
Now at least arecord doesn't crash the system anymore, but it only 
returns silence (Despite a mic being connected).

ossplay still crashes though and strace isn't of much use.
Running ossplay causes a sys reset so fast the strace output cannot even 
be flushed to disk anymore, neverless be up long enough to read it on 
the screen.

Jan Wolf