[ATrpms-users] Alsa 1.0.13 crashes my system hard

[Jeff Guerdat]

Barry Stewart wrote:
> Axel Thimm wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 12:37:27PM -0500, Barry Stewart wrote:
>>> I upgraded alsa to version 1.0.13 on my FC6 dual core AMD x86_64 (Asus
>>> A8N-VM CSM) system with nVidia sound (AD1986A using snd-hda-intel).  I did
>>> this in an attempt get full surround sound support, which I don't get with
>>> stock FC6 rpms.  However, when I attempt to play a sound (i.e. 
>>> speaker-test -c 6), my system crashes hard.  No keyboard, mouse, not even
>>> a blinking cursor; I have to power cycle the box.  Is any one else having
>>> this problem?

...

> I updated alsa-lib, alsa-kmdl, alsa-driver and libasound2.  I have three 
> nvidia cards in a triple-head setup using the latest stable driver from 
> nvidia.

I haven't had this problem but I found that I could not use the 
kernel-specific modules to successfully play certain sounds on a fresh 
load of FC6 on my Toshiba laptop.  I do have the ATrpms alsa-lib files 
but is otherwise the Redhat-supplied files.  My problem was a 
never-ending repetition of any system sound although sound worked fine 
in applications.

This is what I have loaded:

alsa-lib-1.0.13-32.fc6.at
alsa-lib-devel-1.0.13-32.fc6.at
alsamixergui-0.9.0-0.3.rc1.fc6
alsa-oss-devel-1.0.12-3.fc6
alsa-utils-1.0.12-3.fc6


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