Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267916AbUI1Ps0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Sep 2004 11:48:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267943AbUI1Ps0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Sep 2004 11:48:26 -0400 Received: from cantor.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:36766 "EHLO Cantor.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267916AbUI1PsY (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Sep 2004 11:48:24 -0400 Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 17:48:23 +0200 Message-ID: From: Takashi Iwai To: Jan De Luyck Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [2.6.9-rc2] ALSA nm256 driver causes system lockup In-Reply-To: <200409281447.17537.lkml@kcore.org> References: <200409281447.17537.lkml@kcore.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 15) (Security Through Obscurity) (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: 932 Lines: 28 At Tue, 28 Sep 2004 14:47:17 +0200, Jan De Luyck wrote: > > Hello list, > > I'm trying to configure a laptop (Dell Latitude CXs) with 2.6.9-rc2. All runs > well, except the ALSA nm256 driver for the Neomagic Audio chip. Loading this > driver results in an immediate and complete system lockup.... > > I've tried appending "vaio_hack=1" on the kernel command line, but that didn't > really do anything. > > ALSA is compiled as modules. > > Any pointers? Try to load snd-nm256 driver before X. The chip uses the video RAM for the sound buffer. It seems that X clears all video RAM that confuses the sound driver. I.e. if you already started X, there is no way back :) 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/