Re: [Openvortex-dev] Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: [ALSA - driver 0001138]: errors when installing au8820 modules

[Igor Kovalenko]

>From what I see we have different system hardware - mine is NForce3
and yours is VIA, mine is au8820 (12eb:0001) and yours is au8810 (12eb:0003)

>From ALSA bugtracking system report I see the error is in driver probe
routine i.e. where everything is just starting. Can you try to isolate
the failure point? In my case I was able to look at printk() output to
trace initialization sequence (just place printk()s where you find usable
in snd_vortex_create routine). We can at least rule out pci initialization...

Alien wrote:
> below this mail is a copy paste of some mail from alsa-devel
> 
> link to BTS: https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=1047
> 
> oops is more or less the same one as the one osiris has: 
> https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=1025
> 
> i didn't find my oops report either, it's probably _somewhere_ in alsa-devel 
> mailing list, i'm trying to find it, but it's not easy...
> 
> in all my mails, i found a mail that is a response to something i can't seem 
> to find..., i think this was a mail from me to manuel jander personally, 
> cause i can't find anything on google about it.
> 
> Op dinsdag 7 juni 2005 20:28, schreef Igor Kovalenko:
> 
>>>I never did apply the patch, i made a modification before the patch
>>>(which is available on the net somewhere, probably some mailing list)
>>>before the patch was out. the oops is also at the same place... but that
>>>all is several months ago. i'll make a patch to what i have now, it's
>>>more or less similar to the original patch.
>>
>>I seem to be blind at where the oops report is - is it in openvortex-dev
>>archives?
>>
>>
>>>hmm, I seem to have applied the patch after all, and made a little
>>>modifications...
>>>
>>>this is a patch against some CVS version of a few weeks ago not more than
>>>3 weeks i think...
>>>
>>>see if this works for you
>>
>>I checked your diff result - it looks the same as diff11.diff except for
>>extra snd_card_set_dev() call in initialization sequence and
>>modification of second parameter of vortex_XtalkHw_SetSampleRate
>>both of which make no difference for me. Other than that, line numbers
>>seem to be in perfect match so you have the same patch as I do.
>>
>>I cleaned up CC: list a bit for now - need to know what are the other
>>differences before talking to alsa-dev :)
>>
>>Let's try to find the difference.
>>
>>My setup is:
>>
>>lspci -v
>>0000:02:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: Aureal Semiconductor Vortex 1
>>(rev 02) Subsystem: Diamond Multimedia Systems Sonic Impact A3D
>>        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 185
>>        Memory at ed000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
>>        I/O ports at d000 [size=8]
>>        I/O ports at d100 [size=8]
>>        Capabilities: <available only to root>
>>
>>cat /proc/ioports |grep au8820
>>    d000-d007 : au8820
>>    d100-d107 : au8820
>>
>>uname -a
>>Linux skyserv 2.6.12-rc5-git3-yukon64 #1 Sat May 28 14:07:46 MSD 2005
>>x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
>>
>>lsmod|grep snd
>>snd_seq_midi            7488  0
>>snd_pcm_oss            49632  0
>>snd_mixer_oss          16128  1 snd_pcm_oss
>>snd_seq_oss            31488  0
>>snd_seq_midi_event      7424  2 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_oss
>>snd_seq                50880  5 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
>>snd_au8820             29920  1
>>snd_ac97_codec         84112  1 snd_au8820
>>snd_pcm                85324  3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_au8820,snd_ac97_codec
>>snd_timer              20680  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
>>snd_page_alloc          8520  1 snd_pcm
>>snd_mpu401_uart         6400  1 snd_au8820
>>snd_rawmidi            22368  2 snd_seq_midi,snd_mpu401_uart
>>snd_seq_device          7760  4
>>snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi snd                    48360 
>>13
>>snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_au8820,snd_ac97_codec,snd
>>_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device soundcore         
>>     8032  1 snd
> 
> 
> 
> mail from a while ago:
> 
> Op zaterdag 23 april 2005 06:04, schreef Raymond:
> 
>>Alien wrote:
>>
>>>while you guys are working on that driver, is there anyone that has a
>>>64bit setup? if not, i'd like to test out your driver in 64bit. i still
>>>have a number of issues with it (my card is an au8810).
>>
>>I do not have any 64bit setup, are you sure that your 64bit patch is
>>correct ?
> 
> 
> well, i'm using it every day. and before the patch at modprobe time i got
> kernel oops... so...
> 
> I don't do much special things with it, I use it for line in and PCM and
> stereo output, i don't use the equalizer or anything fancy...
> 
> 
>>http://kerneltrap.org/node/3848
> 
> 
> I'm still using kernel 2.6.8, though it has a fairly large number of patches,
> but since i didn't decide this, it may very well be in there and I may have
> just used this... you may want this implemented, since both PIO and MMIO is
> used in your driver.
> 
> 
>>snd-au88x0 use the following macros to perform read/write of 32bit data
>>from/to Memory Mapped I/O
>>
>>#define       hwread(x,y) readl((x)+((y)>>2))
>>#define       hwwrite(x,y,z) writel((z),(x)+((y)>>2))
> 
> 
> i think the memory mapped I/O is 64bit in 64bit CPU's.
> 
> 
>>Would you provide the result of "lspci -vvvn" to find out the content of
>>PCI BAR0 of your au8810 card ?
> 
> 
> ok:
> 
> []# lspci -vvvn
> 00:00.0 Class 0600: 1106:3188 (rev 01)
>       Subsystem: 1043:80a3
>       Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
>  Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
>       Status: Cap+ 66Mhz+ UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- 
> <TAbort-
> <MAbort+ >SERR- <PERR-
>       Latency: 8
>       Region 0: Memory at 00000000e0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
>       Capabilities: [80] AGP version 3.5
>               Status: RQ=32 Iso- ArqSz=0 Cal=2 SBA+ ITACoh- GART64- HTrans- 
> 64bit- FW+
> AGP3+ Rate=x8
>               Command: RQ=1 ArqSz=0 Cal=2 SBA+ AGP+ GART64- 64bit- FW- Rate=x8
>       Capabilities: [c0] #08 [0060]
>       Capabilities: [68] Power Management version 2
>               Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA 
> PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
>               Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
>       Capabilities: [58] #08 [8001]
> 
> 00:01.0 Class 0604: 1106:b188
>       Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
>  Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
>       Status: Cap+ 66Mhz+ UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- 
> <TAbort-
> <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
>       Latency: 0
>       Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0
>       I/O behind bridge: 0000f000-00000fff
>       Memory behind bridge: faf00000-fd0fffff
>       Prefetchable memory behind bridge: bfb00000-dfafffff
>       BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR+ NoISA- VGA+ MAbort- >Reset- FastB2B-
>       Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2
>               Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2- AuxCurrent=0mA 
> PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
>               Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
> 
> 00:07.0 Class 0c00: 1106:3044 (rev 80) (prog-if 10)
>       Subsystem: 1043:808a
>       Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
>  Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
>       Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- 
> <TAbort-
> <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
>       Latency: 64 (8000ns max)
>       Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
>       Region 0: Memory at 0000000040000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) 
> [size=2K]
>       Region 1: I/O ports at 1000 [size=128]
>       Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
>               Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA 
> PME(D0-,D1-,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold+)
>               Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
> 
> 00:09.0 Class 0400: 109e:036e (rev 11)
>       Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
>  Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
>       Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- 
> <TAbort-
> <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
>       Latency: 64 (4000ns min, 10000ns max)
>       Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
>       Region 0: Memory at 00000000dfe00000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=4K]
>       Capabilities: [44] Vital Product Data
>       Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 2
>               Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA 
> PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
>               Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
> 
> 00:09.1 Class 0480: 109e:0878 (rev 11)
>       Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
>  Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
>       Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- 
> <TAbort-
> <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
>       Latency: 64 (1000ns min, 63750ns max)
>       Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
>       Region 0: Memory at 00000000dff00000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=4K]
>       Capabilities: [44] Vital Product Data
>       Capabilities: [4c] Power Management version 2
>               Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA 
> PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
>               Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
> 
> 00:0a.0 Class 0200: 11ab:4320 (rev 13)
>       Subsystem: 1043:811a
>       Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr-
>  Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
>       Status: Cap+ 66Mhz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- 
> <TAbort-
> <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
>       Latency: 64 (5750ns min, 7750ns max), cache line size 40
>       Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 10
>       Region 0: Memory at 00000000fd900000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) 
> [size=16K]
>       Region 1: I/O ports at bc00 [size=256]
>       Expansion ROM at 00000000fd800000 [disabled] [size=128K]
>       Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 2
>               Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA 
> PME(D0+,D1+,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold+)
>               Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=1 PME-
>       Capabilities: [50] Vital Product Data
> 
> 00:0c.0 Class 0401: 12eb:0003 (rev 02)
>       Subsystem: 12eb:0003
>       Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
>  Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
>       Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- 
> <TAbort-
> <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
>       Latency: 64 (500ns min, 20750ns max), cache line size 40
>       Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 10
>       Region 0: Memory at 00000000fdc00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) 
> [size=256K]
>       Region 1: I/O ports at dc00 [size=8]
>       Region 2: I/O ports at cc00 [size=8]
>       Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2
>               Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1- D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA 
> PME(D0-,D1-,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold-)
>               Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
> 
> 00:0d.0 Class 0401: 1102:0002 (rev 0a)
>       Subsystem: 1102:8066
>       Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
>  Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
>       Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- 
> <TAbort-
> <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
>       Latency: 64 (500ns min, 5000ns max)
>       Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 3
>       Region 0: I/O ports at ec00 [size=32]
>       Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1
>               Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA 
> PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
>               Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
> 
> 00:0d.1 Class 0980: 1102:7002 (rev 0a)
>       Subsystem: 1102:0020
>       Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
>  Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
>       Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- 
> <TAbort-
> <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
>       Latency: 64
>       Region 0: I/O ports at b000 [size=8]
>       Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1
>               Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA 
> PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
>               Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
> 
> 00:0e.0 Class 0200: 10b7:9004 (rev 04)
>       Subsystem: 10b7:9004
>       Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr-
>  Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
>       Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- 
> <TAbort-
> <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
>       Latency: 64 (2500ns min, 12000ns max), cache line size 40
>       Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
>       Region 0: I/O ports at b400 [size=128]
>       Region 1: Memory at 00000000fde00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) 
> [size=128]
>       Expansion ROM at 00000000fdd00000 [disabled] [size=128K]
>       Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1
>               Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA 
> PME(D0-,D1+,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold-)
>               Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
> 
> 00:0f.0 Class 0104: 1106:3149 (rev 80)
>       Subsystem: 1043:80ed
>       Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
>  Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
>       Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- 
> <TAbort-
> <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
>       Latency: 64
>       Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 10
>       Region 0: I/O ports at e400 [size=8]
>       Region 1: I/O ports at e000 [size=4]
>       Region 2: I/O ports at d800 [size=8]
>       Region 3: I/O ports at d400 [size=4]
>       Region 4: I/O ports at d000 [size=16]
>       Region 5: I/O ports at c800 [size=256]
>       Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2
>               Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA 
> PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
>               Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
> 
> 00:0f.1 Class 0101: 1106:0571 (rev 06) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
>       Subsystem: 1043:80ed
>       Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
>  Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
>       Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- 
> <TAbort-
> <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
>       Latency: 32
>       Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
>       Region 4: I/O ports at fc00 [size=16]
>       Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2
>               Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA 
> PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
>               Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
> 
> 00:10.0 Class 0c03: 1106:3038 (rev 81)
>       Subsystem: 1043:80ed
>       Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr-
>  Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
>       Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- 
> <TAbort-
> <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
>       Latency: 64, cache line size 40
>       Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
>       Region 4: I/O ports at b800 [size=32]
>       Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2
>               Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=375mA
>  PME(D0+,D1+,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold+) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
> 
> 00:10.1 Class 0c03: 1106:3038 (rev 81)
>       Subsystem: 1043:80ed
>       Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr-
>  Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
>       Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- 
> <TAbort-
> <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
>       Latency: 64, cache line size 40
>       Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
>       Region 4: I/O ports at c000 [size=32]
>       Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2
>               Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=375mA
>  PME(D0+,D1+,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold+) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
> 
> 00:10.2 Class 0c03: 1106:3038 (rev 81)
>       Subsystem: 1043:80ed
>       Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr-
>  Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
>       Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- 
> <TAbort-
> <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
>       Latency: 64, cache line size 40
>       Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 10
>       Region 4: I/O ports at c400 [size=32]
>       Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2
>               Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=375mA
>  PME(D0+,D1+,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold+) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
> 
> 00:10.4 Class 0c03: 1106:3104 (rev 86) (prog-if 20)
>       Subsystem: 1043:80ed
>       Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr-
>  Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
>       Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- 
> <TAbort-
> <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
>       Latency: 64, cache line size 40
>       Interrupt: pin C routed to IRQ 3
>       Region 0: Memory at 00000000fdf00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) 
> [size=256]
>       Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2
>               Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=375mA
>  PME(D0+,D1+,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold+) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
> 
> 00:11.0 Class 0601: 1106:3227
>       Subsystem: 1043:80ed
>       Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
>  Stepping+ SERR- FastB2B-
>       Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- 
> <TAbort-
> <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
>       Latency: 0
>       Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2
>               Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA 
> PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
>               Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
> 
> 00:18.0 Class 0600: 1022:1100
>       Control: I/O- Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
>  Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
>       Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort-
> <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
>       Capabilities: [80] #08 [2101]
> 
> 00:18.1 Class 0600: 1022:1101
>       Control: I/O- Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
>  Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
>       Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort-
> <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
> 
> 00:18.2 Class 0600: 1022:1102
>       Control: I/O- Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
>  Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
>       Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort-
> <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
> 
> 00:18.3 Class 0600: 1022:1103
>       Control: I/O- Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
>  Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
>       Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort-
> <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
> 
> 01:00.0 Class 0300: 10de:0322 (rev a1)
>       Subsystem: 10b0:0427
>       Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
>  Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
>       Status: Cap+ 66Mhz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- 
> <TAbort-
> <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
>       Latency: 248 (1250ns min, 250ns max)
>       Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
>       Region 0: Memory at 00000000fb000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) 
> [size=16M]
>       Region 1: Memory at 00000000c0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
>       Expansion ROM at 00000000fd000000 [disabled] [size=128K]
>       Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2
>               Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA 
> PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
>               Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
>       Capabilities: [44] AGP version 3.0
>               Status: RQ=32 Iso- ArqSz=0 Cal=3 SBA+ ITACoh- GART64- HTrans- 
> 64bit- FW+
> AGP3+ Rate=x4,x8
>               Command: RQ=32 ArqSz=0 Cal=0 SBA+ AGP+ GART64- 64bit- FW- 
> Rate=x8
> 
> 
>>What is the model of your au8810 card (e.g. Vortex Advantage, SQ1500,
>>SoundCom V90) ?
> 
> 
> bulk model, Aureal Vortex something or other...
> lspci gives: 00:0c.0 Multimedia audio controller: Aureal Semiconductor AU8810
> Vortex Digital Audio Processor (rev 02)
> 
> 
>>Do your 64bit machine has more than 4Gb memory ?
> 
> 
> no
> 
> 
>>>sometimes i start playing a song, and it starts playing a few second
>>>or so and hangs, then i kill the application and modprobe -r all sound
>>>modules and modprobe them again to make it work again.
>>
>>Do your configure all the sound-apps to use ALSA instead of OSS ?
> 
> 
> all of them do, but I do have a few that use OSS-emulation too
> 
> 
>>>BUT: sometimes not only that happens, but also when i try to kill the
>>>apps it will not kill. when that happens, all kill, killall, top, ps
>>>aux commands hang at the command line and cannot be killed by CTRL-C
>>>or otherwise, i have been able to see that when i stopped my display
>>>managener I did an lsmod and it gave something like this:
>>>
>>>snd-pcm-oss            59752  11
>>>snd-mixer-oss          20480  1 snd-pcm-oss
>>>snd-au8810             43760  220
>>>snd-ac97-codec         83408  1 snd-au8810
>>>snd-pcm               108172  112 snd-pcm-oss,snd-au8810,snd-ac97-codec
>>>snd-page-alloc         10384  1 snd-pcm
>>>gameport                3840  1 snd-au8810
>>>snd-mpu401-uart        11904  1 snd-au8810
>>>
>>>
>>>as you can see the snd-au8810 module seem to have an impossible number
>>>of "dependencies" (i think has to do with the number of unclosed
>>>sound-apps trying to be played; this could be since gaim is programmed
>>>to execute an 'aplay %s')
>>
>>This is abnormal, au8810 has 16 SRC and snd-au8810 can play either 16
>>mono streams or 8 stereo streams concurrently.
> 
> 
> of course it is abnormal...
> 
> 
>>Use alsamixer to find out which ac97 codec on your au8810.
> 
> 
> chip: Wolfson WM9701A
> 
> 
>>Do you have any application using gameport, mpu401 or OSS  ?
> 
> 
> haven't gotten any gameport to work, not on the emu10k1 nor the au8810, never
> use MPU401 and i use OSS emulation on games like AA, ET, OpenAL...
> 
> 
>>>i've had this major crash below only 3 times; and the logs didn't
>>>detect anything specific at the time. the only thing the logs
>>>mentioned at that time was an ntpd sync going on; so the only thing i
>>>can think of is that at a certain moment when a sync is going on, some
>>>kind of lock is holding cause this to happen... the only thing that i
>>>can do to fix this is reset...
>>
>>Do the log indicate the snd-au8810 is loaded properly ?
> 
> 
> yes of course: it gives
> 
> vortex: reg error
> 
> as always ;-)
> 
> 
>>>it is interesting to note that i also have an snd-emu10k1 as second
>>>card, which never gave problems like this, and i am always able to
>>>"modprobe -r snd-emu10k1" ...
>>
>>snd-emu10k1 use PIO.
>>
>>Would you post the content of /etc/modprobe.conf ?
> 
> 
> I'm not using that right now:
> 
> if i want to use sound after bootup (which doesn't happen often at all), I
>  do:
> 
> modprobe snd-au8810
> modprobe snd-emu10k1
> modprobe snd-pcm-oss
> alsactl restore -f /data/path/mixer


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Kind regards,
Igor V. Kovalenko