Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263775AbUFKKCq (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Jun 2004 06:02:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263778AbUFKKCp (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Jun 2004 06:02:45 -0400 Received: from cantor.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:3230 "EHLO Cantor.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263775AbUFKKCo (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Jun 2004 06:02:44 -0400 Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 12:02:43 +0200 Message-ID: From: Takashi Iwai To: David Ford Cc: linux-kernel mailing list , alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: ALSA burps, 2.6.7-rc2 VIA VT8233 In-Reply-To: <40C8FE7C.2060404@blue-labs.org> References: <40C8FE7C.2060404@blue-labs.org> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.10.1 (Watching The Wheels) SEMI/1.14.5 (Awara-Onsen) FLIM/1.14.5 (Demachiyanagi) APEL/10.6 MULE XEmacs/21.4 (patch 13) (Rational FORTRAN) (i386-suse-linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.5 - "Awara-Onsen") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 936 Lines: 25 At Thu, 10 Jun 2004 20:36:12 -0400, David Ford wrote: > > This machine spams dmesg _very_ frequently with the following message: > > ALSA sound/pci/via82xx.c:737: invalid via82xx_cur_ptr, using last > valid pointer It means that the driver reads an unexpected value from the CURR_COUNT register to calculate the current DMA position. I'm also not sure what's wrong. It happens only on a certain hardware. > It doesn't happen constantly but comes in bursts. I haven't any idea > what triggers it since I can be playing 20 minutes without any messages > then there will be 50 of them with no change in computer usage. You can turn off CONFIG_SND_DEBUG to shut them up. Takashi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/