On 6/03/2008, at 11:18 PM, Takashi Iwai wrote: > At Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:14:23 +1300, Michael Cree wrote: >> >> I recently installed a M-Audio Revolution 7.1 sound card into DEC/ >> Compaq >> Alpha XP1000, and it is causing crashes and complete lock ups of the >> computer when I attempt to play sound through the sound card. Since >> this is my main computer I shifted the card to a DEC Alpha PWS500au >> and >> it causes the same lock ups there, and in one case a kernel oops >> made it >> into the system log (listed below). > > The oops looks related with mmap. Maybe alpha doesn't support the > mmap of coherent DMA pages like intel architectures allow? I have just applied the recently announced patch (alpha: fix ALSA DMA mmap crash) in the -mm kernel tree to the 2.6.24.3 kernel I am running. The M-Audio Revolution 7.1 card now works fine on both Compaq Alpha XP1000 and the DEC Alpha PWS600au. Cheers Michael. _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
