On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> At Thu, 25 Oct 2001 12:09:27 +0200 (CEST),
> Jaroslav wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Mike Hutchinson wrote:
> >
> > > >
> > > > At Tue, 23 Oct 2001 21:52:18 +0100,
> > > > Mike Hutchinson wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Hi !
> > > > >
> > > > > I apologise if this problem has been
> > > > discussed before but
> > > > > the
> > > > > archive search facility is broken.
> > > > >
> > > > > With ALSA installed whenever I try to access my
> > > > floppy drive
> > > > > e.g. mount
> > > > > a disk, my machine freezes. The machine is a
> > > > home built PC
> > > > > with a Yamaha
> > > > > Waveforce 192XG soundcard which is based around
> > > > the YMF724
> > > > > soundchip. I
> > > > > have both SuSE 6.4 and 7.1 distributions
> > > > installed and the
> > > > > problem occurs
> > > > > with both. I have recently tried both the latest stable
> > > > > (0.5.11)
> > > > > and beta releases (0.9.0beta8a) but this did
> > > > not solve the
> > > > > problem.
> > > >
> > > > Do you use a normal floppy drivce, I mean, not USB?
> > >
> > > Yes, I have a normal floppy drive.
> > >
> > > > I know that on some sony VAIO notebooks there is
> > > > a problem of
> > > > interrupts generated by USB floppy drive when usb
> > > > driver is not
> > > > loaded.
> > > >
> > > > But in other case, sorry, no idea.
> > > >
> > > > Well, just to be sure. This deadlock doesn't
> > > > happen when ALSA is not
> > > > loaded?
> > > >
> > > > Takashi
> > > >
> > >
> > > The floppy drive works fine when ALSA is not loaded.
> >
> > I can only confirm this bug. Unfortunately, we have no fix for it. It
> > looks like PCI/ISA bridge collision.
>
> Hmm, does it have to do with isa_dma_bridge_buggy?
I have not investigated deeply the problem, but my test machine has Intel
BX chipset which hasn't this flag set.
Jaroslav
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ALSA project http://www.alsa-project.org
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