Re: [2.4]ALi M5451 sound hangs on init; workaround
hi,
have you ever tried to use an up to date acpi subsystem for irq routing (www.sf.net/projects/acpi)?
you seem to have lots of conflicts (from your dmesg).
--
mattia
On Wed, 11 Dec 2002 07:15:20 -0800
Fedor Karpelevitch <fedor@apache.org> wrote:
> I have ALi M5451 souncard in my laptop (Compaq Presario 900z for those
> searching) and it hangs the machine with any kernel I tried
> (currently 2.4.20-ac1 + hirofumi patch). I traced it down to the line
> where it hangs - that is drivers/sound/trident.c:3379 which says:
> pci_write_config_byte(pci_dev, 0xB8, ~temp);
>
> removing this line fixes the problem for me.
> I am not sure what would be the proper fix.
> The hanging looks slightly different at different times: sometimes it
> would just freeze, but sometimes it would would start giving ide
> errors on any operation and sometimes it was giving this message:
> "i8253 count too high! resetting." once or twice, but anyway the
> system was not functional after that.
> I got similar results with alsa drivers for this card, but I did not
> debug that.
>
> I am also getting several IRQ conflict messages on boot, I wonder if
> that could be related to this problem and I wonder whether they are
> something I should worry about or not.
>
> Fedor
>
> PS. some additional info about the system in case it is relevant: it's
> Compaq Presario 900z with Athlon XP 1500+, lspci output is attached,
> distribution is debian unstable.
>
>
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