Re: 2.1.119 breaks ALSA?

Simon Kirby (sim@netnation.com)
Sun, 30 Aug 1998 22:38:42 -0700 (PDT)


On Sun, 30 Aug 1998, Felix von Leitner wrote:

> 2.1.119 reproducibly breaks ALSA (the other sound driver) for me.
> Catting any of the new /proc/sound files gives an "invalid argument"
> error in the end. Catting stuff to /proc/sound/0/mixer0 gives the same
> error (which is how you initialize the mixer). Playing an MP3 works,
> all following ones yield "in use" errors. Removing the sound driver
> does not work then, either.
>
> So I tried to switch back to OSS and isapnp, but I always get timeouts.
> This looks like I picked the wrong IRQ, which I'm quite positive that I
> didn't.
>
> Anyone else have problems like this?

Yeah, me. ;)

Either retrieve a new version of the driver via CVS (it's fixed in the CVS
tree) or find all places where struct file_operations is used and stick in
a "NULL, /* flush */" before the line containing "release". There's a few
places where it occurs.

Simon-

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