Re: MediaGX sound freezes 2.3.99-pre

From: Alan Curry (pacman-kernel@cqc.com)
Date: Wed Jul 19 2000 - 17:46:40 EST


Just a reminder... this bug is still out there. test5-pre3 is the same.
isapnp detects the CMI8330, the sb driver loads and /dev/mixer works, but the
machine freezes on open of /dev/dsp.

I wrote:
>
>Alan Cox writes the following:
>>Ok then the vendor has added a real sound chip and disabled the mediaGX
>>emulation of soundblaster.
>>
>>The 8330 should work.
>
>But it doesn't.
>
>OK, after a search of the 2.3 kernels, I've found that 2.3.13 was the one
>that broke it. 2.3.12 works, while 2.3.x where x is chosen from
>{13,14,15,19,41,99pre4-5,99pre5,99pre6-2} all suffer instant freeze on any
>attempt to use /dev/dsp.
>
>My 2.3.12 and 2.3.13 configurations are identical - I took the working 2.3.12
>tree, applied the 2.3.13 patch, made oldconfig and said no to all the new
>options except for the PPP compression modules, then made dep clean bzImage
>modules modules_install.

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