Bug 4170

Summary:	floppy drive and esd don't play nice together on laptops
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	cleith
Component:	esound	Assignee:	Elliot Lee <sopwith>
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Version:	6.0	CC:	aviro
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Description cleith 1999-07-22 20:50:50 UTC

I have noticed that the floppy drives of at least 2
different laptops of mine will not function (can't mount
/dev/fd*, even as root) so long as esd (the enlightenment
sound deamon) is running.  Esd doesn't need to be serving
any sound apps at the time, the drive will fail as long as
it has served some app before you try to access the floppy
drive.  (That is, I believe everything is fine until the
first sound sample is played, but there after the drive will
not function properly.)

Of course the work around is to temporarily kill esd, but
that is not all that desireable.  (Sometimes it is
sufficient to issue: esdctl off and then esdctl on.)

It has been suggested that this is really a problem of the
underlying hardware in some laptops, in that there may be
only 1 controller for both the sound card and the floppy
drive.  I just thought that I would make a note of it on
bugzilla so that at least others would not spend too much
time puzzling over the fact that their floppy drive does not
work.

This bug was spotted on both a Toshiba Satallite 4010CDT
laptop and a Dell Latitude XPi CD.  Both machines were
running newly installed RedHat 6.0 (CDROM from CheapBytes).

Comment 1 Preston Brown 2000-02-16 15:32:59 UTC

Seems weird, but if you have time to look into it, would be great.

Comment 2 Elliot Lee 2000-02-16 19:02:59 UTC

Can you send us the contents of /proc/interrupts on these laptops, before
starting esd, after starting esd, and after reproducing the bug?

Please also run 'strace -e open,ioctl,close -o esd.trace esd' and send the
resulting esd.trace file.

Comment 3 Elliot Lee 2000-07-17 19:48:56 UTC

No reply.