[ATrpms-users] Alsa 1.0.13 crashes my system hard

[Axel Thimm]

On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 06:41:02AM -0500, Jeff Guerdat wrote:
> 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.

I'm working off a Toshiba laptop, too.

> 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

Try adding alsa-driver-kmdl or downgrading alsa-lib.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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