This is actually a plea for updated status on getting sound working correctly on the Miata platform with 2.6 kernels. The latest info I have found to date is referenced in
http://lists.debian.org/debian-alpha/2004/11/msg00092.html which has a similar subject line :-). Back then, people described a problem where playing audio files resulted in the sound driver getting stuck in a loop where approx. the first half second of output was repeated. I confirm that the problem still exists in 2006 with 2.6.17-rc4. Worse: in my case, the looping audio resulted in the kernel reporting all kinds of "Bad page state in process 'xxx'" errors, which ultimately forced me to hit the reset switch to get everything cleaned up (tried a soft reboot, which hung due to all the "Bad page state" errors). I'm going to try 2.6.17-rc5 with Tyson Whitehead's patches (to "sound/isa/es18xx.c" and "include/asm-generic/dma-mapping.h") and see if that at least gets things up and running. I'm particularly wanting to know if the ISA DMA problems on Alpha have been addressed in some way other than the dma-mapping.h patch. Possibly related, but probably not: /usr/sbin/hald from the hal-0.5.7-1 package is generating "unaligned trap" errors both at boot time and whenever I load a hardware module. I'll go ahead and file a bug report against that package. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Bob Tracy WTO + WIPO = DMCA? http://www.anti-dmca.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
