Description of problem: Upgraded a working FC4 system to FC5. I am now getting a strange message from syslogd at any open terminal window: Message from syslogd@konishi at Wed Mar 22 11:46:58 2006 ... konishi kernel: Disabling IRQ #17 running dmesg, gives this: irq 17: nobody cared (try booting with the "irqpoll" option) [<c01389ab>] __report_bad_irq+0x2b/0x69 [<c0138b6c>] note_interrupt+0x183/0x1af [<c01384c6>] handle_IRQ_event+0x23/0x4c [<c0138589>] __do_IRQ+0x9a/0xcd [<c0104bde>] do_IRQ+0x5c/0x77 ======================= [<c010358e>] common_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 [<c0101dec>] default_idle+0x2b/0x53 [<c0101e4e>] cpu_idle+0x3a/0x4f [<c03a26a3>] start_kernel+0x28c/0x28e <3>handlers: [<e0919589>] (snd_cmipci_interrupt+0x0/0xe9 [snd_cmipci]) Disabling IRQ #17 I tried playing video after seeing this message, and the audio still seemed to work. I further tried booting with the irqpoll option (as suggested in the dmesg info) to see what happens... and during playback of a video, the sound began looping the last half second and the machine was unresponsive requiring a reset. From /etc/sysconfig/hwconf: driver: via686a desc: "VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI]" vendorId: 1106 deviceId: 3057 subVendorId: 1458 subDeviceId: 0000 desc: "VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8363/8365 [KT133/KM133]" vendorId: 1106 deviceId: 0305 subVendorId: 1458 subDeviceId: 0000 desc: "C-Media Electronics Inc CM8738" vendorId: 13f6 deviceId: 0111 subVendorId: 13f6 subDeviceId: 0111 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Version : 2.6.15 Release : 1.2054_FC5 How reproducible: Every reboot -- it takes a few minutes to happen. Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
I said above that the audio works... but after using the machine for a couple of days, I realise that this isn't strictly true. There are occasional sound drop outs while playing... and once mplayer has finished playing a video clip, the last half second of sound repeats over and over again for a couple of seconds before finally exiting. I don't believe this is a problem with the video clip, or mplayer... since the clip played fine before the upgrade and mplayer was not upgraded during the move from FC4 to FC5 (it was compiled from source). I can't say for sure whether this is related to the above syslogd message, but I thought it worth noting because it further suggests that something has broken in this sound driver.
After a few days use, I've had a number of lockups requiring the use of the reset button. In response, I tried installing the most recent FC4 kernel onto my FC5 system: kernel-2.6.15-1.1833_FC4 After rebooting, the system works perfectly with no sound problems and no lockups. That would seem to confirm that something has seriously broken in the driver for this card in the FC5 kernel.
A new kernel update has been released (Version: 2.6.18-1.2200.fc5) based upon a new upstream kernel release. Please retest against this new kernel, as a large number of patches go into each upstream release, possibly including changes that may address this problem. This bug has been placed in NEEDINFO state. Due to the large volume of inactive bugs in bugzilla, if this bug is still in this state in two weeks time, it will be closed. Should this bug still be relevant after this period, the reporter can reopen the bug at any time. Any other users on the Cc: list of this bug can request that the bug be reopened by adding a comment to the bug. In the last few updates, some users upgrading from FC4->FC5 have reported that installing a kernel update has left their systems unbootable. If you have been affected by this problem please check you only have one version of device-mapper & lvm2 installed. See bug 207474 for further details. If this bug is a problem preventing you from installing the release this version is filed against, please see bug 169613. If this bug has been fixed, but you are now experiencing a different problem, please file a separate bug for the new problem. Thank you.
(this is a mass-close to kernel bugs in NEEDINFO state) As indicated previously there has been no update on the progress of this bug therefore I am closing it as INSUFFICIENT_DATA. Please re-open if the issue still occurs for you and I will try to assist in its resolution. Thank you for taking the time to report the initial bug. If you believe that this bug was closed in error, please feel free to reopen this bug.