On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 12:59:31PM -0400, Paul Winkler wrote: > On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 11:33:03AM -0400, Dave Phillips wrote: > > Greetings: > > > > Last night I tried running the latest Dynebolic and AGNULA live discs > > from my laptop and from Ivy's desktop machine. Both failed due to > > different reasons. The desktop machine's CD-ROM drive is old, and I kept > > getting looped in a 'bad read' error. The laptop is not so stable these > > days, but both distros failed at the same point: they recognize the A/V > > chipset (a NeoMagic NM256 piece o' crap) and stall there. I'll have the > > laptop with me in Karlsruhe, maybe one of the gurus can help me with it > > then ? > > I have the cursed Neomagic 256 AV in my old Dell CPI-A. > I found that with Alsa, the system had a roughly 60% chance > of total lockup when loading the driver. > > I had some back-and-forth email with Takashi which resulted > in some patches that made the driver less likely to freeze the > system, and at one point it was down to maybe a 10% chance of lockup. > But later releases of ALSA made it much worse again. > Eventually I gave up... I don't run audio on that laptop anymore :-( Forgot to mention - overall I had better luck with the OSS-Free driver. It froze occasionally but not nearly as often. -- Paul Winkler http://www.slinkp.com Look! Up in the sky! It's ! (random hero from isometric.spaceninja.com)
