I patched my 2.2.14 kernel w/ Andrea's aa7 patch, rebuilt the kernel and
tried again. The system seems more stable than before, I am not getting
random lockups with most things. However, I can lockup my system 9 times
out of 10 by playing audio through an es1370 sound board with the driver
as a module. I have not tried compiling in sound support monolithically,
but I have a feeling the problem is centered around the sound card's alpha
support, or Alpha PCI support, rather than a lower level bug as before.
Anyone able to repeat this problem w/ an Ensoniq AudioPCI 1370?
Also, could someone summarize the main differences in the Alpha arch b/w
the 2.2.x series and the 2.3.x kernels? Have Andrea's patches made it
into 2.3.x? Should we be focusing more on 2.3.x?
System-
AlphaPC 164
21164PC 500Mhz
128Mb RAM
NCR 5c875 SCSI UW controller (4 gig drive, 6x DVD)
Matrox G200 PCI
Ensoniq AudioPCI
3com XL (3c59x)
Regards,
Matthew R. Pavlovich
Linux Video and DVD -- http://linuxvideo.org
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