Hi, as already mentioned, there is a correlation between bit 11 (SMOD LSB) of the Extended Legacy Audio Control register (0x42-0x43) of the YMF chips and the "floppy access crashes with alsa ymfpci driver" phenomenon, i.e. I can avoid these crashes if I add this line to the alsa source
legacy_ctrl2 |= 1 << 11; (or if dma8=1). The kernel ymfpci driver uses v = 0x8800; to initialize this register - and is well behaved. If I change this to v = 0x8000; and load the module with parameters, the machine locks up if I try to access the floppy drive. The number 0x8800 seems to come from the old ymf_sb driver. Unfortunately it doesn't mention the origin of this value (Yamaha sample code?), but wouldn't it be a good idea to patch the alsa driver, e.g. to adopt the behaviour of the kernel ymfpci, or to add a snd_sbdma8 parameter, so people can try to use the chipset default (dma8=1) instead of the alsa default? Achim _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
