Bug#311507: Sound Chip Causes Sarge to Crash
Package: kernel-image-2.6.8-2-k7
Version: 2.6.8-16
Error message: NONE
What I did: Enable on-board AC'97 sound chip.
Details: see also debian-testing and debian-kernel email lists two
messages, Subject: Sarge Sound Problems (since May 30). See [1] at end.
The sound seemed to work fine with kernel-image-2.6.8-1-k7 (2.6.8-5) for
a while but I would experience an occasional problem with X hanging but
nothing that CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE would not cure. Finally (after about
two weeks - having installed several more sound applications) I started
exp
DAMN THING CRASHED AGAIN WITH SOUND OFF.
This time the screen blanked and keyboard locked up but I was able to
log in remotely. XFree86 was running with 100% CPU utilization.
Crashes *always* happen in evolution or mozilla but since they are up
almost all the time ...
I am going to go back to kernel-image-2.6.8-1-k7 just so I can rule out
a hardware problem. I still have WBL installed though I have not booted
it since I installed Sarge but I can even revert to that.
Some details. Mobo is ASUS A7V8X-X (i think) and it has a Radeon card
in it. I don't want to flood you with info just yet. However, I notice
below the AGP aperture is reported as 128MB but I have only configured
XFree with 32MB (though the last apt-get update seemed to want to know
what video card vendor was so it may have re-written XFree86config).
Feel free to pass this on to Branden if it is an X problem :-).
>From dmesg:
This is odd:
input: PC Speaker
(there is a speaker plugged into the sound port but that is off)
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CPU: After vendor identify, caps: 0383fbff c1c3fbff 00000000 00000000
CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: L2 Cache: 512K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: After all inits, caps: 0383fbff c1c3fbff 00000000 00000020
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU: AMD Athlon(TM) XP 2500+ stepping 00
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
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NET: Registered protocol family 23
8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.27
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:0f.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xb800, 00:40:05:8a:7f:bb, IRQ 169
eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8100B/8139D'
via-rhine.c:v1.10-LK1.1.20-2.6 May-23-2004 Written by Donald Becker
ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:00:12.0[A] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 185
eth1: VIA Rhine II at 0xa000, 00:0c:6e:cb:c0:69, IRQ 185.
eth1: MII PHY found at address 1, status 0x7849 advertising 01e1 Link
0000.
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Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones
agpgart: Detected VIA KT400/KT400A/KT600 chipset
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 439M
agpgart: AGP aperture is 128M @ 0xf0000000
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[drm] Initialized radeon 1.11.0 20020828 on minor 0: ATI Technologies
Inc RV280
[Radeon 9200 SE]
agpgart: Found an AGP 3.5 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 4x mode
agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 4x mode
[drm] Loading R200 Microcode
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
nfs warning: mount version older than kernel
EOF
Thanks,
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[1] Executive Summary.
I only recently became interested in using sound so I have always
disabled the sound chip before installing (why this report is so late -
re Sarge Freeze).
The PC has otherwise been stable since it was purchased about February,
2004. It ran White Box Linux since it was bought but I installed Sarge
because the sound chip did not work on WBL (2.4.x kernel).
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