[ATrpms-users] alsaconf crashes system

[M. Barnabas Luntzel]

weird thing happened this morning. the sound was mysteriously not  
working, so I run alsaconf. the system completely freezes and I must  
hard boot it to get it to come back. i can reproduce this every time.  
also reloading alsa from init causes the crash.

some system info:

[root at toecutter ~]# uname -a
Linux toecutter.warpath.org 2.6.16-1.2115_1.rhfc4.cubbi_swsusp2 #1  
Tue Jun 13 06:25:31 EDT 2006 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux

[root at toecutter ~]# rpm -qa |grep alsa
alsa-kmdl-2.6.16-1.2115_1.rhfc4.cubbi_swsusp2-1.0.11-47.rhfc4.at
alsa-utils-1.0.10-19.rhfc4.at
alsa-driver-1.0.11-47.rhfc4.at

[root at toecutter ~]# lsmod |grep snd
snd_via82xx            24728  0
gameport               15305  1 snd_via82xx
snd_ac97_codec         86688  1 snd_via82xx
snd_ac97_bus            2048  1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_seq_dummy           3076  0
snd_seq_oss            30308  0
snd_seq_midi_event      6528  1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq                46156  5  
snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_pcm_oss            36512  0
snd_mixer_oss          16000  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm                79620  3 snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer              21380  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc          8200  2 snd_via82xx,snd_pcm
snd_mpu401_uart         6656  1 snd_via82xx
snd_rawmidi            21792  1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device          7948  4  
snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi
snd                    47840  12  
snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_pcm_oss 
,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_dev 
ice
soundcore               9505  1 snd


[root at toecutter ~]# cat ~/.asoundrc
         pcm.via82xx {
            type hw
            card 0
         }

         ctl.via82xx {
            type hw
            card 0
         }


[root at toecutter ~]# grep snd /etc/modprobe.conf
alias snd-card-0 snd-via82xx
options snd-card-0 index=0
options snd-via82xx index=0
remove snd-via82xx { /usr/sbin/alsactl store 0 >/dev/null 2>&1  
|| : ; }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-via82xx
alias char-major-116 snd
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss


[root at toecutter ~]# aplay /usr/share/sounds/gaim/redalert.wav
ALSA lib pcm.c:2099:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default
aplay: main:542: audio open error: No such file or directory


this winds up in dmesg:


ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:11.5[C] -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:11.5 to 64
ALSA /var/tmp/bach-build/BUILD/alsa-driver-1.0.11/pci/../alsa-kernel/ 
pci/via82xx
.c:580: codec_read: codec 0 is not valid [0x107e5368]
ALSA /var/tmp/bach-build/BUILD/alsa-driver-1.0.11/pci/../alsa-kernel/ 
pci/via82xx
.c:580: codec_read: codec 0 is not valid [0x107e5368]
ALSA /var/tmp/bach-build/BUILD/alsa-driver-1.0.11/pci/../alsa-kernel/ 
pci/via82xx
.c:580: codec_read: codec 0 is not valid [0x107e5368]
ALSA /var/tmp/bach-build/BUILD/alsa-driver-1.0.11/pci/../alsa-kernel/ 
pci/via82xx
.c:580: codec_read: codec 0 is not valid [0x107e5368]


thanks for your help