I seem to have problems opening many devices quickly. I use Mandrake 9, kernel 2.4.19-16mdkenterprise and gcc-3.2.1 (GCC) 3.2.1 (Mandrake Linux 9.1 3.2.1-2mdk)
When I do this: x=32 while [ $x -ne 0 ] do let x=x-1 aplay /usr/share/sounds/phone.wav >bomb.$x 2>&1 & done I get a large number of segmentation faults (unfortunately no coredumps) and messages claiming Playing WAVE '/usr/share/sounds/phone.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 44100 Hz, Stereo ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:325:(snd_pcm_hw_hw_params) SNDRV_PCM_IOCTL_HW_PARAMS failed: Cannot allocate memory aplay: set_params:839: Unable to install hw params: ACCESS: RW_INTERLEAVED FORMAT: S16_LE SUBFORMAT: STD SAMPLE_BITS: 16 FRAME_BITS: 32 CHANNELS: 2 RATE: 44100 PERIOD_TIME: 100000 PERIOD_SIZE: 4410 PERIOD_BYTES: 17640 PERIODS: 5 BUFFER_TIME: 500000 BUFFER_SIZE: 22050 BUFFER_BYTES: 88200 TICK_TIME: 10000 Also, dmesg gives me Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000008 printing eip: f8b410b7 *pde = 00000000 Oops: 0002 CPU: 0 EIP: 0010:[<f8b410b7>] Not tainted EFLAGS: 00010296 eax: f6384bd8 ebx: 00000000 ecx: 00000000 edx: f6384bd8 esi: 00015888 edi: 00015888 ebp: f638c000 esp: f6277c5c ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Process aplay (pid: 2288, stackpage=f6277000) Stack: 00000000 00000000 f63170f4 f6384ba0 f754b800 f8b561a3 f6384bd8 00015888 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 f63170e0 f6384ba0 f6277ce4 f8b66f21 f6384ba0 00015888 f754b800 00000000 f6277ce4 f6384ba0 f8b4b4e0 Call Trace: [<f8b561a3>] [<f8b66f21>] [<f8b4b4e0>] [<f8b4b594>] [<f8b4ed4a>] [<c01b87b0>] [<c0129666>] [<c01563ff>] [<c0109627>] Code: c7 43 08 00 00 00 00 8b 02 83 f8 02 0f 84 97 00 00 00 83 f8 (one for each crashed aplay) ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel