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In any event... I've been following the CVS-alsa on a i686-linux-gnu Sony Viao laptop. About the time I upgraded my OS to Slackware 9.0 and the kernel to 2.4.22, it stopped working--usually with my machine hanging. Occasionally it doesn't and today (using today's CVS) I was able to get kysmoops to give some useful information (appended below). I'm using a kernel with the lowlatency and preemptive patches (for 2.4.22) applied. I build alsa using a script, the key parts of which are: function BuildIn () { echo echo Building in $1... echo cd alsa-$1* if [ ! -e config.status ]; then if [ ! -x configure ]; then ./cvscompile $2 else ./configure $2 fi fi if [ $? != 0 ]; then exit 1 fi make if [ $? != 0 ]; then exit 1 fi cd .. InstallIn $1 } BuildIn lib "--with-debug=no --with-gnu-ld" BuildIn driver "--with-cards=nm256 --with-sequencer=yes" BuildIn oss "--disable-alsatest --with-gnu-ld" #BuildIn tools "--disable-alsatest --with-gnu-ld" BuildIn utils "--disable-alsatest --with-gnu-ld" and only use the nm256 driver. Here's what I get: ksymoops 2.4.1 on i686 2.4.22. Options used -V (default) -k /proc/ksyms (default) -l /proc/modules (default) -o /lib/modules/2.4.22/ (default) -m /usr/src/linux/System.map (default) Warning: You did not tell me where to find symbol information. I will assume that the log matches the kernel and modules that are running right now and I'll use the default options above for symbol resolution. If the current kernel and/or modules do not match the log, you can get more accurate output by telling me the kernel version and where to find map, modules, ksyms etc. ksymoops -h explains the options. Warning (compare_maps): ksyms_base symbol IO_APIC_get_PCI_irq_vector_R__ver_IO_APIC_get_PCI_irq_vector not found in System.map. Ignoring ksyms_base entry Warning (compare_maps): mismatch on symbol snd_pcm_devices , snd-pcm says cc8cda00, /lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/sound/acore/snd-pcm.o says cc8cd5e0. Ignoring /lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/sound/acore/snd-pcm.o entry Warning (compare_maps): mismatch on symbol snd_pcm_link_rwlock , snd-pcm says cc8cdb00, /lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/sound/acore/snd-pcm.o says cc8cd6e0. Ignoring /lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/sound/acore/snd-pcm.o entry Warning (compare_maps): mismatch on symbol snd_cards , snd says cc8a89e0, /lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/sound/acore/snd.o says cc8a8820. Ignoring /lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/sound/acore/snd.o entry Warning (compare_maps): mismatch on symbol snd_cards_count , snd says cc8a89c0, /lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/sound/acore/snd.o says cc8a8800. Ignoring /lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/sound/acore/snd.o entry Warning (compare_maps): mismatch on symbol snd_ecards_limit , snd says cc8a8964, /lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/sound/acore/snd.o says cc8a87a4. Ignoring /lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/sound/acore/snd.o entry Warning (compare_maps): mismatch on symbol snd_major , snd says cc8a8968, /lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/sound/acore/snd.o says cc8a87a8. Ignoring /lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/sound/acore/snd.o entry Warning (compare_maps): mismatch on symbol snd_mixer_oss_notify_callback , snd says cc8a8a08, /lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/sound/acore/snd.o says cc8a8848. Ignoring /lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/sound/acore/snd.o entry Warning (compare_maps): mismatch on symbol snd_seq_root , snd says cc8a8a14, /lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/sound/acore/snd.o says cc8a8854. Ignoring /lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/sound/acore/snd.o entry Warning (compare_maps): mismatch on symbol nlmsvc_ops , lockd says cc88d510, /lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/fs/lockd/lockd.o says cc88c7d0. Ignoring /lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/fs/lockd/lockd.o entry Warning (compare_maps): mismatch on symbol nfs_debug , sunrpc says cc880ccc, /lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/net/sunrpc/sunrpc.o says cc88098c. Ignoring /lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/net/sunrpc/sunrpc.o entry Warning (compare_maps): mismatch on symbol nfsd_debug , sunrpc says cc880cd0, /lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/net/sunrpc/sunrpc.o says cc880990. Ignoring /lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/net/sunrpc/sunrpc.o entry Warning (compare_maps): mismatch on symbol nlm_debug , sunrpc says cc880cd4, /lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/net/sunrpc/sunrpc.o says cc880994. Ignoring /lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/net/sunrpc/sunrpc.o entry Warning (compare_maps): mismatch on symbol rpc_debug , sunrpc says cc880cc8, /lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/net/sunrpc/sunrpc.o says cc880988. Ignoring /lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/net/sunrpc/sunrpc.o entry Warning (compare_maps): ip_conntrack symbol GPLONLY_ip_conntrack_expect_find_get not found in /lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack.o. Ignoring /lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack.o entry Warning (compare_maps): ip_conntrack symbol GPLONLY_ip_conntrack_expect_put not found in /lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack.o. Ignoring /lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack.o entry Warning (compare_maps): ip_conntrack symbol GPLONLY_ip_conntrack_find_get not found in /lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack.o. Ignoring /lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack.o entry Warning (compare_maps): ip_conntrack symbol GPLONLY_ip_conntrack_put not found in /lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack.o. Ignoring /lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack.o entry Warning (compare_maps): mismatch on symbol ip_conntrack_hash , ip_conntrack says cc8618d4, /lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack.o says cc8613a0. Ignoring /lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack.o entry Warning (compare_maps): mismatch on symbol usb_devfs_handle , usbcore says cc8490f4, /lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/drivers/usb/usbcore.o says cc848b74. Ignoring /lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/drivers/usb/usbcore.o entry Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000 c0113b58 *pde = 00000000 Oops: 0000 CPU: 0 EIP: 0010:[<c0113b58>] Not tainted Using defaults from ksymoops -t elf32-i386 -a i386 EFLAGS: 00010086 eax: c826d984 ebx: c5fb4000 ecx: 00000000 edx: 00000003 esi: c826d984 edi: c8205f20 ebp: c5fb5f20 esp: c5fb5f00 ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Process aplay (pid: 8535, stackpage=c5fb5000) Stack: c30a8a00 c826d800 c8205f20 c826d988 cc8a87c0 00000001 00000286 00000003 c826d94c cc8a27ea c8205f20 00000000 00000282 c826d95c c826d95c c1cab520 c826d800 cc8a40dd c826d800 c8205f20 00000000 c1cab540 c826d95c c8205f20 Call Trace: [<cc8a87c0>] [<cc8a27ea>] [<cc8a40dd>] [<c0136bc4>] [<c0135827>] [<c013588b>] [<c0106d9b>] Code: 8b 01 85 45 fc 74 6a c7 45 f0 00 00 00 00 9c 5f fa ff 43 04 >>EIP; c0113b58 <__wake_up+48/ec> <===== Trace; cc8a87c0 <[snd]snd_fops+0/44> Trace; cc8a27ea <[snd]snd_card_file_remove+aa/d0> Trace; cc8a40dd <[snd]snd_ctl_release+11d/140> Trace; c0136bc4 <fput+4c/f8> Trace; c0135827 <filp_close+93/a0> Trace; c013588b <sys_close+57/7c> Trace; c0106d9b <system_call+33/38> Code; c0113b58 <__wake_up+48/ec> 00000000 <_EIP>: Code; c0113b58 <__wake_up+48/ec> <===== 0: 8b 01 mov (%ecx),%eax <===== Code; c0113b5a <__wake_up+4a/ec> 2: 85 45 fc test %eax,0xfffffffc(%ebp) Code; c0113b5d <__wake_up+4d/ec> 5: 74 6a je 71 <_EIP+0x71> Code; c0113b5f <__wake_up+4f/ec> 7: c7 45 f0 00 00 00 00 movl $0x0,0xfffffff0(%ebp) Code; c0113b66 <__wake_up+56/ec> e: 9c pushf Code; c0113b67 <__wake_up+57/ec> f: 5f pop %edi Code; c0113b68 <__wake_up+58/ec> 10: fa cli Code; c0113b69 <__wake_up+59/ec> 11: ff 43 04 incl 0x4(%ebx) 21 warnings issued. 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