Hey, great. I'm glad someone figured out this problem. On Sun, 2001-12-30 at 14:00, Ron Murray wrote: > I'm slowly getting around to getting my Turtle Beach Santa Cruz > card working properly (as distinct from just limping along) under > Linux using ALSA. One recent (and annoying) development began to occur > if the snd-card-cs46xx module was autocleaned. Attempting to reload it > resulted in the error message: > > ALSA card-cs46xx.c:188: Sound Fusion CS46xx soundcard not found or > device busy > > The only way to get sound again seemed to involve a reboot. > > System details are: > - Compaq 7000US with AMD 1.2G Athlon processor, 512M RAM > - Linux 2.4.17 with FreeS/WAN patches (promlem still appeared on > unpatched kernel) > - alsa drivers 0.9.0beta10, but earlier versions also exhibited the > problem > > After much peering around, traced the problem to function > snd_ac97_mixer() in file lowlevel/generic/ac97_codec.c. Line 1407 > defines a max time delay after chip reset before failure: > > end_time = jiffies + (HZ / 2); > > This was apparently not long enough; changing it to > > end_time = jiffies + (HZ); > > seems to have cured the problem (although this is probably at least > as empirical as the original!). The 4297 datasheet isn't much help > here, so I'm not sure what the real value should be. With the original > value, the delay loop would time out on an attempt to reload the > module. I'm not sure why it would work on initial load; perhaps, ince > this happened at boot time and the machine was presumably working > harder, the effective delay period was somewhat longer. > > Next Santa Cruz job will be to sort out weird mixer problems. > > .....Ron > > -- > Ron Murray ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > https://www.rjmx.net/~ron > GPG Public Key Fingerprint: F2C1 FC47 5EF7 0317 133C D66B 8ADA A3C4 D86C 74DE
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