Description of Problem: When logging into KDE, the system halts for several seconds, then resumes operation and displays the error dialog, "Sound server fatal error: cpu overload, aborting". When the user presses OK to continue, "KNotify" crashes and causes a crash dialog to be displayed. The description reported in the crash dialog is: "The application KNotify (knotify) crashed and caused the signal 6 (SIGABRT)." Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): KDE 2.2. I don't know exactly which component is failing. How Reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot RH 7.2 Roswell-2 (7.1.94) 2. Type userid and password, and log into KDE 3. (failure occurs at this point) Actual Results: The sound server aborts. Apps that use the sound server don't work, including system sounds. Expected Results: Apps that use the sound server should work, including system sounds. Additional Information: The failure doesn't occur with Gnome.
What sound card do you have? Can you send "lspci" and "lspci -v" output, please?
The system uses Intel's new 830M (Almador) chip set, which uses the ICH-3 for audio support (AC'97). The other half of the audio is provided by a Crystal 4299 codec. Output for lspci. ====== 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 3575 (rev 02) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 3576 (rev 02) 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 2482 (rev 01) 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 2484 (rev 01) 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 2487 (rev 01) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801BA PCI (rev 41) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 248c (rev 01) 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 248a (rev 01) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 2483 (rev 01) 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 2485 (rev 01) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc.: Unknown device 8c2e (rev 05) 02:00.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1420 02:00.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1420 02:02.0 Communication controller: Lucent Microelectronics WinModem 56k (rev 01) 02:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 1031 (rev 41) =================================================== Output of lspci -v ====== 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 3575 (rev 02) Subsystem: IBM: Unknown device 021d Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0 Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M] Capabilities: [40] #09 [0105] Capabilities: [a0] AGP version 2.0 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 3576 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, fast devsel, latency 96 Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=64 Memory behind bridge: c0100000-c01fffff Prefetchable memory behind bridge: e0000000-ebffffff 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 2482 (rev 01) (prog- if 00 [UHCI]) Subsystem: IBM: Unknown device 0220 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11 I/O ports at 1800 [size=32] 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 2484 (rev 01) (prog- if 00 [UHCI]) Subsystem: IBM: Unknown device 0220 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11 I/O ports at 1820 [size=32] 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 2487 (rev 01) (prog- if 00 [UHCI]) Subsystem: IBM: Unknown device 0220 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11 I/O ports at 1840 [size=32] 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801BA PCI (rev 41) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0 Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=08, sec-latency=64 I/O behind bridge: 00002000-00006fff Memory behind bridge: c0200000-cfffffff Prefetchable memory behind bridge: f0000000-f7ffffff 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 248c (rev 01) Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 248a (rev 01) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP]) Subsystem: IBM: Unknown device 0220 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11 I/O ports at 01f0 [size=8] I/O ports at 03f4 I/O ports at 0170 [size=8] I/O ports at 0374 I/O ports at 1860 [size=16] Memory at 10000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K] 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 2483 (rev 01) Subsystem: IBM: Unknown device 0220 Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 11 I/O ports at 1880 [size=32] 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 2485 (rev 01) Subsystem: IBM: Unknown device 0222 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11 I/O ports at 1c00 [size=256] I/O ports at 18c0 [size=64] 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc.: Unknown device 8c2e (rev 05) (prog- if 00 [VGA]) Subsystem: IBM: Unknown device 01fc Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11 Memory at c0100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K] Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M] Memory at e4000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M] Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M] Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=64K] Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2 Capabilities: [80] AGP version 2.0 02:00.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1420 Subsystem: IBM: Unknown device 023b Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 11 Memory at c0202000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] Bus: primary=02, secondary=03, subordinate=05, sec-latency=176 Memory window 0: f0000000-f03ff000 (prefetchable) Memory window 1: c0400000-c07ff000 I/O window 0: 00002000-000020ff I/O window 1: 00002400-000024ff 16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001 02:00.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1420 Subsystem: IBM: Unknown device 023b Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 11 Memory at c0203000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] Bus: primary=02, secondary=06, subordinate=08, sec-latency=176 Memory window 0: f0400000-f07ff000 (prefetchable) Memory window 1: c0800000-c0bff000 I/O window 0: 00002800-000028ff I/O window 1: 00002c00-00002cff 16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001 02:02.0 Communication controller: Lucent Microelectronics WinModem 56k (rev 01) Subsystem: AMBIT Microsystem Corp.: Unknown device 0410 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11 Memory at c0201000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256] I/O ports at 6440 [size=8] I/O ports at 6000 [size=256] Capabilities: [f8] Power Management version 2 02:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 1031 (rev 41) Subsystem: IBM: Unknown device 0209 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 66, IRQ 11 Memory at c0200000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] I/O ports at 6400 [size=64] Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2 ===================================================
Looks like a sound driver issue to me, especially since it just works on pretty much all other soundcards. Arjan, are there any known problems with this card?
*** Bug 52637 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Not really; we do have minor upgrade for it, but no real bugs
Hi, I have the equal error here on my Toshiba Satellite Pro 4600 Laptop with different Intel onboard chipset (lspci -v output): --------------------- 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 2445 (rev 03) Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems: Unknown device 0001 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11 I/O ports at ce00 [size=256] I/O ports at cdc0 [size=64] --------------------- The error didn't occured with RedHat kernel-2.4.2-2 from 7.1. Upgrade to newer kernels up to 2.4.7-2 (from rawhide) resulted in described error. With the actual kernel-2.4.7-2.9 (from rawhide) the error vanished, but now another error message bails out: --------------------- Sound server fatal error: Error while initializing the sound driver: audio device doesn't support number of requested channels --------------------- Hope this is kind of helpful information fo you Cheers, Chris
If I run GNOME Desktop sound is working properly with kernel-2.4.7-2.9. Thus it seems to be a problem with the artsd. So short, Chris
This is an interaction between the artsd daemon and the i810 sound driver. A fix has been included in the kernel. Marking this as closed.
Sorry, but the recent kernel-2.4.9 and artsd from rawhide (date 09/17/01) don't help. The sound server (artsd) is again consuming 100% CPU and aborts after a while with the well known dialog. Hope that will be fixed in 7.2. Cheers, Chris