Re: [Alsa-devel] 2.6.15-rc6: boot failure in saa7134-alsa.c

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

At Wed, 21 Dec 2005 19:22:14 +0100,
Adrian Bunk wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 03:23:09PM +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > At Tue, 20 Dec 2005 21:23:25 +0100,
> > Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > > 
> > > On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 11:59:20AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > On Tue, 20 Dec 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > Adrian, does it work if you change the "module_init()" in 
> > > > > > sound/sound_core.c into a "fs_initcall()"?
> > > > > 
> > > > > No, this didn't work.
> > > > > 
> > > > > What did work was to leave sound/sound_core.c alone
> > > > 
> > > > Can you do try the other way again, with sound/core/sound.c fixed too?
> > > >...
> > > 
> > > This works in the sense that the kernel boots and my saa7134 TV card is 
> > > giving both audio and video output.
> > > 
> > > But the non-saa7134 access to my soundcard (e.g. rexima or xmms) is no 
> > > longer working.
> > 
> > What is missing there?  No sound card entry in /proc/asound/cards?
> >...
> 
> <--  snip  -->
> 
> 0 [SAA7134        ]: SAA7134 - SAA7134
>                      saa7134[0] at 0xed800000 irq 18
> 1 [V8237          ]: VIA8237 - VIA 8237
>                      VIA 8237 with AD1888 at 0xe000, irq 21
> 
> <--  snip  -->
> 
> What changed compared to the working setup (if the bug is really here) 
> is the order of the two.

Well, that's not anyway guaranteed unless you pass the proper index
options.

In the case above, snd_via82xx.index=0 saa7134.index=1 should work.
Or you may tune with udev, too.


Takashi