Re: sound blaster hangs in recent kernels

Ian Eure (ieure@peninsula.wednet.edu)
Mon, 05 Jan 1998 20:56:28 -0800


I seem to have the same problem with 2.0.33 and a sb16 (non pnp). svgaquake hangs the
system hard when it initializes the sound board.

Trevor Johnson wrote:

> > I've had a couple of total system lockups when playing MPEG audio files under
> > recent 2.1.x kernels. It seems that when the system is under some load while
> > playing the sound it may just totally hang (machine doesn't respond to the
> > keyboard and can't be pinged). I don't have magic-sysrq so I can't test with
> > that.
>
> I just experienced one while catting a file to /dev/audio. The computer
> wasn't doing much else at the time. The lockups I reported earlier happen
> even in single-user mode.
> ___
> Trevor Johnson