[ATrpms-users] Alsa 1.0.13 crashes my system hard

[Barry Stewart]

Yes, the system still hangs, even after uninstalling the nvidia driver. 
  I also tried booting with the "irqpoll", "pci=routeirq" options, and 
it still hangs.  A couple of times when it crashed, I got a Machine 
Check Error (or something like that), and it said "this is a hardware 
error, not a software error!".  Kind of scary.  I also noted a lot of 
messages in the system log about irq's being disabled or something like 
that.  When I reverted back to the stock 1.0.12 alsa rpms, all those 
messages went away (side note:  cat /proc/asound/version says alsa is 
1.0.12rc1 with the stock Fedora RPMs).  I guess I'll file a bug report 
with the alsa folks, but I want to compile from source first.  Can't do 
it because when I "make", I get errors about msecs to jiffies, or some 
such jibberish.  Google led to no solutions, other than I need to use a 
vanilla kernel (what flavor is Fedora's kernel?  Chocolate?).  Do you 
know how I can compile alsa on FC6 without it complaining about jiffies?

Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 11:46:48PM -0500, 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'm using the 2.6.18-1.2849 kernel, if that helps.
>>> I have never heard of alsa being able to break your system that
>>> hard. What did you update? Both alsa-lib and alsa-driver-(kmdl)?
>>>
>>> What graphics card do you have? Is the kernel otherwise tainted?
>>>
>>> Do you have a second host to log onto the one with the lasa before the
>>> system hangs? If so can you check that it really hangs, or perhaps
>>> only the screen freezes?
>> 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.
> 
> Can you try hanging the system w/o using nvidia's driver? E.g. on an
> untainted kernel?
> 
>> The system definitely hangs.  I cannot ping or ssh into the box from 
>> another computer, even when booting into runlevel 3 and removing the 
>> nvidia module.