Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 18904
(SOUND ES1371)es1371 driver hangs machine after first use
Last modified: 2008-08-01 12:22:51 EDT
I have been using my Ensoniq 1371 card with every version of 2.2 and lots of pre-2.4 kernels and never had any problems. With the kernel shipped with RedHat 7.0, I can play one sound and then the machine is totally and completely hung. No kernel panic, no error message, just freezes. I've got a ABIT BP6 with dual Celerons. I've tried to use the ALSA drivers, but it seems I can't get those to compile with either gcc (won't play nice with kernel) or kgcc (header files screwed up). Sorry to rant, but, I just don't understand how you thought it made sense to ship a broken compiler with broken header files. 6.2 just worked, why did you feel the need to totally break the build tools for 7.0? There is no value added. I've always been a die-hard RedHat fan, but now I have no choice but to look elsewhere for a working XFree86 4.0 distribution.
ALSA builds correctly with the kernel tree. I can vouch for that bit. I think I know what the es1371 problem is, and its fixed in 2.2.18pre, it broke between 2.2.16->2.2.17 for a small number of boards
I can reproduce the hard lockup with my SB Vibra PCI 128. The problem is consistent across 2.2.16 through 2.2.19pre3 (latest I tried), and ALSA 0.9.0beta2. The board identifies as: es1371: version v0.28 time 14:41:54 Dec 31 2000 es1371: found chip, vendor id 0x1274 device id 0x1371 revision 0x06 es1371: found es1371 rev 6 at io 0xb400 irq 11 I have tracked the lockup to a specific outl() in es1371.c, but got stuck there. More detail available on request.
I get the same problem with the 2.2.18 kernel (from kernel.org) as well as with the 2.4.2-0.1.28 kernel from Rawhide (and Redhat 7.1 beta) . Here is the result of lspci: 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8371 [KX133] (rev 02) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8371 [KX133 AGP] 00:07.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super South] (rev 22) 00:07.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. Bus Master IDE (rev 10) 00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. UHCI USB (rev 10) 00:07.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. UHCI USB (rev 10) 00:07.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] (rev 30) 00:0d.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139 (rev 10) 00:0f.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq CT5880 [AudioPCI] (rev 02) 00:11.0 SCSI storage controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] 53c974 [PCscsi] (rev 10) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage Pro AGP 1X/2X (rev 5c) My machine is a 700 Mhz Athlon. I also tried alsa drivers: alsa 0.5.10b WORKS alsa 0.9.0beta2/beta3 CRASHES the system the same way, after about one second of sound. I can recompile my kernel and try patches if you sumbit me some.
In fact, there is a strange issue: if I first load the alsa 0.5.10b driver, play song, unload them, replace them with the alsa 0.9.0beta2 or with the native driver, and load the new one without rebooting, everything works (I checked that the old driver were unloaded (/proc/modules)). But after nextreboot, it crashes again. It sounds like some card initialisation is missing. By the way, may card is a SoundBlaster PCI 128
I can confirm that this problem is still around in 7.1 --- hard lockup on anything that boils down to write(2) to the card.
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