Paul Winkler wrote: > 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 :-( > > On the random occasions that it managed to load, the driver worked fine :-\ > This sounds like my experience with the cursed RME HDSP9652 before I finally gave up. I didn't have the lockups. The machine just didn't load the driver 90% of the time. The 10% of the time it did load it worked fine. It had been much better in earlier version of Alsa and earlier kernels, loading and working (sort of) 100% of the time, but then finally got so bad it wasn't worth the time spent to make it work... - Mark
