'Paul Winkler' wrote about 'Re: [linux-audio-user] my live CD dilemma' - Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 06:59:31PM CEST > 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 :-( > > On the random occasions that it managed to load, the driver worked fine :-\ My Dell CPI400 uses also the Neomagic driver and it has the very same behaviour, although for me the % to have a lockup feels more like 25%. This was both for the OSS driver and later the ALSA driver. I could add to that that even in the time I still used windows 2000 on it (3 years ago) it locked up on audio in windows also occationally, soo maybe it's a hardware issue. Greetings, Joost -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature Url : http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/linux-audio-user/attachments/20040427/0f6bb34d/attachment.bin
