Re: MIDI support broken in 2.1.78 && 2.1.86

Frank van de Pol (F.K.W.van.de.Pol@inter.nl.net)
Wed, 4 Mar 1998 22:56:28 +0100 (MET)


Peter-Paul Witta wrote:
>
>
> > Might also work for you. Let me know the outcome.
>
> ok. the patch worked in several ways. 1.) jazz (2.1) works ok with the
> midi board.

Great, so jazz does make use of /dev/music or /dev/sequencer....

>
> 2.) kmid loops in some init routine...
>
> it would only make sense to complain to it's author if this patch would be
> some permanent part of the 2.2 kernel - if not, i'll rather keep quiet and
> wait...
>
> (i traced it:)
>
> ===============
>
> write(1, "Name : Sound Blaster 16\n", 24Name : Sound Blaster 16
> ) = 24
> write(1, "Device type : 5\n", 16Device type : 5
> ) = 16
> brk(0x8072000) = 0x8072000
> brk(0x8073000) = 0x8073000
> write(2, "Virtual memory exceeded in `new\'"..., 34Virtual memory exceeded
> in `new'
> ) = 34
> _exit(-1) = ?
> ========================
>

Looks like an application problem to me...

I personally hope this 'patch' does not need to go into the mainstream
kernel, because it's a workaround for an initialisation problem within the
sound driver.... This patch just masks the problem :-)

Regards,

Frank.

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