[alsa-devel] "modprobe snd_hda_intel" crashes on my hardware

[Takashi Iwai]

At Wed, 28 Sep 2011 09:54:46 +0200,
Abdelghani Ouchabane wrote:
> 
> Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > At Tue, 27 Sep 2011 08:41:20 +0200,
> > Abdelghani Ouchabane wrote:
> >   
> >> diff -auNrp kernel-2.6.26.orig/sound/pci/hda/patch_via.c kernel-2.6.26.new/sound/pci/hda/patch_via.c
> >> --- kernel-2.6.26.orig/sound/pci/hda/patch_via.c	2008-10-17 18:58:06.000000000 +0200
> >> +++ kernel-2.6.26.new/sound/pci/hda/patch_via.c	2008-10-17 19:01:21.000000000 +0200
> >>     
> > ...
> >
> > Does the problem occur with 3.0 or 3.1-rc kernel?
> >   
> Hallo Takashi,
> 
>   It occurs with Fedora 15 ( Kernel : 2.6.39 )
> > (Alternatively you can try alsa-driver-snapshot tarball.)
> >
> > If yes, load the driver with probe_only=1 option, run alsa-info.sh
> > with --no-upload option, and attach the output.
> >   
> I attached to you the following :
> 
>     1 - The output of alsa-info.sh  ( probe_only=1  +  --no-upload + my 
> changes(ezonopatch) + alsa-driver 1.0.24 )
> 
>     2 - The output of alsa-info.sh  ( probe_only=1  +  --no-upload + 
> alsa-driver-snapshot ( alsa-driver-1.0.24.72.g7c48f.1314.geb1d0)
> 
>     3 - With alsa-driver-1.0.24.72.g7c48f.1314.geb1d0 : modprobe 
> snd_hda_intel : The system did not crash but alsamixer said that "This 
> sound device does not have any controls"

OK, it's good to hear.  So 3.1 kernel is fine as is.  Only 3.0 and
earlier can get Oops with buggy BIOS setups.

I can easily fix it up, but maybe better first stabilize 3.1 and make
similar 3.0 stable patch.


thanks,

Takashi