2.6.1-mm1: A couple of problems

2.6.1-mm1: A couple of problems

[Ricardo Galli]

Hi Andrew, just a copule of problems with kernel 2.6.1-mm1

- artsd running with ALSA gives the error: "CPU overloading, stopping" 
just few seconds after it began to play a song. It's a P4 HT with SMP 
enabled.

- Xfree hang: in a Dell Latitude laptop (P3-M 933), xfree (4.3, last 
version in Debian experimental) hangs and shows a white screen. The 
keyboard is also blocked, but login from the network is still OK. There 
is no any error message. I also see the same effect when I tryed to run 
Xine in full screen mode.

Hope this helps.

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Re: 2.6.1-mm1: A couple of problems

[Max Valdez]

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On Sun, 2004-01-11 at 05:39, Ricardo Galli wrote:
> Hi Andrew, just a copule of problems with kernel 2.6.1-mm1
> 
> - artsd running with ALSA gives the error: "CPU overloading, stopping" 
> just few seconds after it began to play a song. It's a P4 HT with SMP 
> enabled.

Same problem here with a dual PIII, 1GB RAM, BTW, I'm uncompressing
kernel to build the 2.6.1-mm2 kernel, and preemption is not doing a very
good job, xmms (using xmms-alsa) skips for about 1 second every 5 secs
or so.

> 
> - Xfree hang: in a Dell Latitude laptop (P3-M 933), xfree (4.3, last 
> version in Debian experimental) hangs and shows a white screen. The 
> keyboard is also blocked, but login from the network is still OK. There 
> is no any error message. I also see the same effect when I tryed to run 
> Xine in full screen mode.

I dont have that problem, using nvidia propietary module, or the xfree
nv one.

Are you sure you didnt change the keyboard recently ?? maybe xfree is
misconfigured, because that happened to me because of a miscofiguration
of a new keyboard.

Max
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Re: 2.6.1-mm1: A couple of problems

[Rudo Thomas]

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> - artsd running with ALSA gives the error: "CPU overloading, stopping" 
> just few seconds after it began to play a song. It's a P4 HT with SMP 
> enabled.

I suppose this is a compatibility problem.

I have just recompiled arts-1.1.94 (aka kde3.2beta2) in gentoo and it does not
print the above message. Gentoo contains some kind of patch to arts. I attached
it. Try if it helps.

Have a nice day.

Rudo.

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--- arts/configure.in.in	2003/08/28 17:28:59	1.94
+++ arts/configure.in.in	2003/11/24 20:13:09	1.95
@@ -549,6 +549,26 @@ AC_DEFUN([AC_CHECK_LIBASOUND],
       #include <alsa/asoundlib.h>
       #endif
     ],[
+      #if (SND_LIB_MAJOR == 1) && (SND_LIB_MINOR == 0)
+        /* we have ALSA 1.x */
+      #else
+        #error not ALSA 1.x
+      #endif
+    ],
+    kde_has_alsa_1_0=yes,
+    kde_has_alsa_1_0=no)
+  fi
+
+  if test "x$kde_has_asoundlib" = "xyes"; then
+    AC_TRY_COMPILE([
+      #include "confdefs.h"
+      #ifdef HAVE_SYS_ASOUNDLIB_H
+      #include <sys/asoundlib.h>
+      #endif
+      #ifdef HAVE_ALSA_ASOUNDLIB_H
+      #include <alsa/asoundlib.h>
+      #endif
+    ],[
     #if (SND_LIB_MAJOR == 0) && (SND_LIB_MINOR == 5)
       /* we have ALSA 0.5.x */
     #else
@@ -575,6 +595,18 @@ AC_DEFUN([AC_CHECK_LIBASOUND],
           AC_DEFINE(HAVE_SND_PCM_RESUME, 1,
             [Define if libasound has snd_pcm_resume()])])
       fi
+      if test "x$kde_has_alsa_1_0" = "xyes"; then
+        LIBASOUND="-lasound"
+        AC_DEFINE(HAVE_LIBASOUND2, 1,
+          [Define if you have libasound.so.2 (required for ALSA 0.9.x/1.x support)])
+	AC_DEFINE(ALSA_PCM_OLD_SW_PARAMS_API, 1,
+          [Define if you have alsa 1.x])
+	AC_DEFINE(ALSA_PCM_OLD_HW_PARAMS_API, 1,
+          [Define if you have alsa 1.x])
+        AC_CHECK_LIB(asound,snd_pcm_resume,[
+          AC_DEFINE(HAVE_SND_PCM_RESUME, 1,
+            [Define if libasound has snd_pcm_resume()])])
+      fi
     ])
   fi
   AC_SUBST(LIBASOUND)

Re: 2.6.1-mm1: A couple of problems

[Andrew Morton]

Ricardo Galli <gallir@uib.es> wrote:
>
> Hi Andrew, just a copule of problems with kernel 2.6.1-mm1
> 
> - artsd running with ALSA gives the error: "CPU overloading, stopping" 
> just few seconds after it began to play a song. It's a P4 HT with SMP 
> enabled.

That message came from artsd, not the kernel I assume.  There's a big ALSA
patch in mm1, but how it could cause artsd to do this I do not know.

> - Xfree hang: in a Dell Latitude laptop (P3-M 933), xfree (4.3, last 
> version in Debian experimental) hangs and shows a white screen. The 
> keyboard is also blocked, but login from the network is still OK. There 
> is no any error message. I also see the same effect when I tryed to run 
> Xine in full screen mode.

Could you please do a `patch -p1 -R' of

ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.1/2.6.1-mm1/broken-out/DRM-cvs-update.patch

and see if that fixes it?