Re: [alsa-devel] M-Audio Revolution 7.1 sound card causing crash on Alpha

[Michael Cree <mcree@orcon.net.nz>]

On 6/03/2008, at 11:18 PM, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> At Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:14:23 +1300, Michael Cree wrote:
> > I recently installed a M-Audio Revolution 7.1 sound card into DEC/ 
> > Compaq
> > Alpha XP1000, and it is causing crashes and complete lock ups of the
> > computer when I attempt to play sound through the sound card.  Since
> > this is my main computer I shifted the card to a DEC Alpha PWS500au  
> > and
> > it causes the same lock ups there, and in one case a kernel oops  
> > made it
> > into the system log (listed below).
>
> The oops looks related with mmap.  Maybe alpha doesn't support the
> mmap of coherent DMA pages like intel architectures allow?


I have just applied the recently announced patch (alpha: fix ALSA DMA  
mmap crash) in the -mm kernel tree to the 2.6.24.3 kernel I am  
running.  The M-Audio Revolution 7.1 card now works fine on both  
Compaq Alpha XP1000 and the DEC Alpha PWS600au.

Cheers
Michael.