Jeremiah Benham wrote: > I have noticed since I switched to the 2.6 kernel tree I have been having troubles with asfxload and sfxload. When I try to launch it hangs. > The program just sits their running and can't be killed. It does not use to many clock cycles but I can't seem to kill it no matter what I do. > I tried killall asfxload and other tricks. I also tried to kill it with kde's process management program but it still did not die. A few times it complained that > /dev/sequencer was not available no such device. I was wondering if there is something I am doing wrong or if I should file a bug report. Anyone else experience > this? > > sound card = SB live > Kernel = 2.6.2 (same problem with other versions of 2.6) > asfxload = ver.0.5.0c me: kernel 2.6.5, sb live! platinum, asfxload 0.5.0b > launching asfxload by itself complains: > No Emux synth hwdep device is found > > so I modprobe snd-hwdep and snd-emux-synth but it still complains I tried asfxload and it looks like it's dead (waiting for some system call) but it actually works, at least on my machine. However it takes about 10+ hours to load soundfonts (yes, more then ten hours). Attach strace to see what it's doing (it loads a bit and waits forever, loads a bit and waits forever). btw I think you need snd-seq module (maybe some other, I don't remember, just look at what snd-* modules you have and load some:-) I posted a message to alsa-user and here's what I've got (only one response): > At Wed, 22 Sep 2004 05:32:38 -0700, > Erik Steffl wrote: > >>> >>> I used to use sfxload to load soundfonts before and it worked (same >>> soundfont file, same alsa install). I just tried the asfxload and it >>> takes, so far, several hours to load the soundfont file. > > > Internally there is no big difference between sfxload and asfxload. > The latest CVS version has the __NORETRY flag indicating that the > driver doesn't wait when the page isn't available, so it won't take > hours but will lack some data. > > Anyway, it's likely a kernel issue. There was a bugreport telling > that 2.6.9rc2-mm1 fixed the memory handling. > > > Takashi >
