Bug#376699: linux-image-2.6.17-1-686: locks up when playing MIDI file to EMU10K1 soundcard and hard disk activity

[Arthur Marsh <arthur.marsh@internode.on.net>]

maximilian attems wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 08:51:54PM +0930, Arthur Marsh wrote:
> > Severity: important
> over exagerated.

ok, but is the only thing that has locked up Debian for me (-:

>  
>  
> > Please refer to:
> >
> > [Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#376382: ALSA MIDI playback 
> > lock-up on kernel 2.6.17-686, not on kernel 2.6.16-2-686
> >
> > The 2.6.17-1-686 has lockups when I attempt to play MIDI files to a 
> > SoundBlaster Live! 5.1 model 0220 PCI sound card using its onboard 
> > MIDI synth and there is significant hard disk activity. I have not 
> > had this problem since reverting to the 2.6.16-2-686 kernel.
>
> are you sure that 2.6.16-2-686 works?
> it was the first kernel with CONFIG_HZ_250 previous had 1000,
> i would suspect the difference to be between 2.6.16-2-686 and
> 2.6.16-1-686
>  
> > I'm running a PII-266 with 256 MiB of RAM. 

Yes 2.6.16-2-686 works, 2.6.17-1-686 locks up.

Arthur.