On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 1:54 PM, Kirk Bocek <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 9/24/2010 8:50 AM, Kirk Bocek wrote: > > Is anyone aware of any issues with USB audio devices? > > > > I have a Centos 5.5 x86_64 hosts with an external USB audio device. It > was > > working great for months and then started to cause kernel crashes. > > > > I assumed the device had gone bad and went out and bought a new device > from a > > different manufacturer. The new device installed fine and worked great > under > > the previous kernel (2.6.18-194.11.3.el5) with > > > > alsa-kmdl-2.6.18-194.11.3.el5-1.0.20-80.el5 > > > > installed. > > > > But this morning I installed the kmdl for the new kernel: > > > > alsa-kmdl-2.6.18-194.11.4.el5-1.0.23-84.el5 > > > > And tried booting. It hung on "Starting udev..." Removing the USB sound > device > > allowed normal booting. Plugging it back in after boot was complete > caused a > > kernel panic and a trip to the hardware-reset switch. > > > > Anyone have any thoughts? > > > > Thanks, > > Kirk Bocek > > Follow-up to this posting. By visiting > http://dl.atrpms.net/el5-x86_64/atrpms/stable/ I discovered that Axel is > still > compiling the ALSA 1.0.20 version of the drivers. After removing the 1.0.23 > package that yum defaulted to and manually installing the 1.0.20 version, > the > USB sound device is now working. > > Has anyone heard of problems with 1.0.23? > > > Yes. 1.021, 1.0.22 and 1.0.23 have never worked for me with rhel5 running on Intel mobos.
-- Paulo Roma Cavalcanti LCG - UFRJ
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