sound driver problems, again

Steve VanDevender (stevev@efn.org)
Wed, 15 Jan 1997 11:10:37 -0800


I've noticed the following messages appearing occasionally in my system
logs.

Jul 30 06:22:53 tzadkiel linux: Sound: Audio queue3 corrupted for dev0 (0/8)
Jul 30 21:53:37 tzadkiel linux: Sound: Audio queue3 corrupted for dev0 (0/8)
Aug 6 19:36:37 tzadkiel linux: Sound: Audio queue3 corrupted for dev0 (0/8)
Aug 22 19:05:07 tzadkiel linux: Sound: Audio queue3 corrupted for dev0 (0/16)
Aug 27 19:31:26 tzadkiel linux: Sound: Audio queue3 corrupted for dev0 (0/16)
Sep 4 08:38:25 tzadkiel linux: Sound: Audio queue3 corrupted for dev0 (0/16)
Sep 14 23:43:26 tzadkiel linux: Sound: Audio queue3 corrupted for dev0 (0/16)
Sep 18 07:38:00 tzadkiel linux: Sound: Audio queue3 corrupted for dev0 (0/16)
Oct 13 17:03:57 tzadkiel linux: Sound: Audio queue3 corrupted for dev0 (0/16)
Oct 20 15:46:03 tzadkiel linux: Sound: Audio queue3 corrupted for dev0 (0/16)
Nov 16 11:50:45 tzadkiel linux: Sound: Audio queue3 corrupted for dev0 (0/16)
Jan 4 21:38:38 tzadkiel kernel: Sound: Audio queue3 corrupted for dev0 (0/8)
Jan 5 17:11:51 tzadkiel kernel: Sound: Audio queue3 corrupted for dev0 (0/8)
Jan 15 09:11:07 tzadkiel kernel: Sound: Audio queue3 corrupted for dev0 (0/16)

They always correspond with an attempt by a script to cat an audio file
to /dev/audio, with the cat process blocking until manually killed.
However, it happens pretty rarely (those are _all_ the messages from the
past six months), and killing the cat process allows audio to work again
until the next time.

Hannu keeps trying to convince me that my system has flaky hardware, but
I keep holding out a faint hope that it might be some fixable bug in the
sound driver.