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 Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2003 2:08 pm Post subject: ALSA disables NIC |
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Hi.
I just upgraded to 2.6.0-test4-mm4 and now when I start ALSA, I get no sound... PLUS my ethernet card quits working!! I've never had a problem like this before.
I have an Aureal Vortex (8820) card, using kernel patches from here: http://imptech.dhs.org/~imptech/ I have an ISA NE2000 compatible NIC.
Everything is working fine until I start alsasound. If I try to play a sound using aplay I get:
| Code: | Playing WAVE '/usr/kde/3.1/share/sounds/pop.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 44100 Hz, Mono
aplay: aplay.c:836: set_params: Assertion `err >= 0' failed.
Aborted by signal Aborted...
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Anyway. The bigger problem (right now is that my NIC quits working). Here is the output of lsmod before:
| Code: | localhost etc # lsmod
Module Size Used by
agpgart 26568 0
nvidia 1700876 10
ne 7488 0
8390 8704 1 ne
crc32 3808 1 8390
usblp 11520 0
rtc 10568 0
scanner 20064 0
hid 30944 0
vfat 13184 1
fat 41088 1 vfat
uhci_hcd 29544 0
usbcore 96756 6 usblp,scanner,hid,uhci_hcd
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... and after alsasound starts:
| Code: | localhost etc # lsmod
Module Size Used by
snd_au8820 36456 0
snd_ac97_codec 50532 1 snd_au8820
snd_pcm 85632 1 snd_au8820
snd_page_alloc 9220 1 snd_pcm
snd_timer 22368 1 snd_pcm
snd_mpu401_uart 6112 1 snd_au8820
snd_rawmidi 18560 1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd 39908 6 snd_au8820,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi
agpgart 26568 0
nvidia 1700876 10
ne 7488 0
8390 8704 1 ne
crc32 3808 1 8390
usblp 11520 0
rtc 10568 0
scanner 20064 0
hid 30944 0
vfat 13184 1
fat 41088 1 vfat
uhci_hcd 29544 0
usbcore 96756 6 usblp,scanner,hid,uhci_hcd
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Any help would be appreciated!!
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pilla
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| Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2003 3:25 pm Post subject: |
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What happens if you just compile them inside the kernel and not as modules?
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MrChucho
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| Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2003 9:46 pm Post subject: |
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nope  nothing. Even compiled into the kernel, my NIC doesn't work while using my soundcard. I get some sort of "no such device or address" error. BTW, I have:
| Code: | alias eth0 ne
options ne irq=5 io=0x0300
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In my '/etc/modules.d/net'. This is really the only problem I'm having with 2.6... but it's a big one!! What about using OSS?? Should I try that instead??
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pilla
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| Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2003 3:10 am Post subject: |
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| MrChucho wrote: | What about using OSS?? Should I try that instead??
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Are you using APIC? You could try to enable or disable it.
Don't you have some kind of IRQ conflict? Maybe changing IRQs for the network card could prevent this wierd problem.
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MrChucho
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| Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2003 1:44 pm Post subject: |
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I assumed it was some sort of IRQ conflict... however, I'm forcing my NIC to be on IRQ 5 (which, since I have an Asus P2B, is a requirement...) and after everything has booted, my sound card shows up on IRQ 10... very strange.
I will try messing with APIC. Thanks!
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| Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2003 2:12 pm Post subject: |
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You can get info about conflicts in /proc
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MrChucho
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| Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2003 3:50 pm Post subject: |
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| pilla wrote: | | You can get info about conflicts in /proc |
How?? |
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MrChucho
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Ha ha! Well, I tried enabling ACPI, but now my nvidia card doesn't work!! Oh well, it didn't fix the NIC / aureal problem either... Any other ideas? Could my ALSA config be wrong?? I've looked around in '/etc/modules.d/alsa' and '/etc/modules.d/net'... where else can I look?? Where would relevant debug info or error message be reported?
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| Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2003 4:46 pm Post subject: |
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You could try development-sources instead of mm-sources
Maybe something in the patches is creating the problem
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| Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2003 2:39 am Post subject: |
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Bugger! Tried 'development-sources' instead of 'mm-sources'. No luck either. I just don't understand what happens... my NIC works fine, then I run '/etc/init.d/alsasound start' and the NIC quits working... but starts working again IMMEDIATELY after '/etc/init.d/alsasound stop' !! What in the world. I thought maybe it was an IRQ conflict but here's the contents of '/proc/interrupts' before: | Code: | localhost proc # cat interrupts
CPU0
0: 10767863 XT-PIC timer
1: 2315 XT-PIC i8042
2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
5: 4771 XT-PIC NE2000
8: 2 XT-PIC rtc
11: 914874 XT-PIC nvidia
12: 10559 XT-PIC uhci-hcd
14: 29709 XT-PIC ide0
15: 17 XT-PIC ide1
NMI: 0
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and after loading the ALSA modules:
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localhost proc # cat interrupts
CPU0
0: 10778406 XT-PIC timer
1: 2374 XT-PIC i8042
2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
5: 4771 XT-PIC NE2000
8: 2 XT-PIC rtc
10: 0 XT-PIC au8820
11: 915774 XT-PIC nvidia
12: 10559 XT-PIC uhci-hcd
14: 29766 XT-PIC ide0
15: 17 XT-PIC ide1
NMI: 0
ERR: 0
ERR: 0 |
I'm stumped!
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pilla
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| Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2003 2:46 am Post subject: |
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There are other things that may conflict, like ioports and iomens.
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| Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2003 2:49 am Post subject: |
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OK. I think I found the problem... but I don't know what it is exactly and I don't know how to fix it.... here is some of the output of '/proc/ioports' BEFORE loading ALSA:
| Code: | b800-b807 : 0000:00:0a.0
d000-d007 : 0000:00:0a.0 |
and '/proc/iomem' as well:
| Code: | | d5800000-d581ffff : 0000:00:0a.0 |
Now, here's the same AFTER loading the ALSA modules:
| Code: | b800-b807 : 0000:00:0a.0
b800-b807 : au8820
d000-d007 : 0000:00:0a.0
d000-d007 : au8820
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and '/proc/iomem':
| Code: | d5800000-d581ffff : 0000:00:0a.0
d5800000-d581ffff : au8820 |
Looks like a conflict to me!! But how do I solve it?? Something involving '/sbin/setpci' ??
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Minos
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| Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2003 5:34 pm Post subject: Re: ALSA disables NIC |
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| MrChucho wrote: | Hi.
I just upgraded to 2.6.0-test4-mm4 and now when I start ALSA, I get no sound... PLUS my ethernet card quits working!! I've never had a problem like this before.
I have an Aureal Vortex (8820) card, using kernel patches from here: http://imptech.dhs.org/~imptech/ I have an ISA NE2000 compatible NIC.
Everything is working fine until I start alsasound. If I try to play a sound using aplay I get:
| Code: | Playing WAVE '/usr/kde/3.1/share/sounds/pop.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 44100 Hz, Mono
aplay: aplay.c:836: set_params: Assertion `err >= 0' failed.
Aborted by signal Aborted...
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Anyway. The bigger problem (right now is that my NIC quits working). |
I'm afraid I don't have any advice about the network card, but I get a similar error from aplay using an 8830. I also use test4-mm4 with imptech's patch, but I got the same error with pfieffer-sources and the openvortex CVS. gdb tells me that err=-22, but I haven't been able to figure out just what that means. I've mucked around the source to aplay, alsa-lib, and the driver. I suspect it has something to do with DMA while setting buffer_time. I'm planning to make a post to the openvortex-dev mailing list, I'll reference this URL. I'll post here if anything comes of it. |
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MrChucho
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| Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2003 6:25 pm Post subject: Re: ALSA disables NIC |
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| Minos wrote: | | I'm planning to make a post to the openvortex-dev mailing list, I'll reference this URL. I'll post here if anything comes of it. |
Thanks. Like I said, this is really the only problem I'm having with 2.6... but it's a BIG one! Have you had any luck using the "old" OSS driver?
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Minos
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| Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2003 6:57 pm Post subject: |
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I haven't tried the old OSS driver. I forgot to mention that I can play sound through the OSS-emulation, even if I can't through the ALSA API. Strange indeed.  |
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MrChucho
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| Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2003 7:22 pm Post subject: |
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| pilla wrote: | | There are other things that may conflict, like ioports and iomens. |
OK. I don't know why it would affect my NIC, but maybe it IS an IRQ conflict... In windows, my aureal is on IRQ 9, however, in linux it ends up on IRQ 10... | Quote: | Bus 0, device 10, function 0:
Multimedia audio controller: Aureal Semiconductor Vortex 1 (rev 2).
IRQ 10.
Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=2.Max Lat=12.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xd5800000 [0xd581ffff].
I/O at 0xd000 [0xd007].
I/O at 0xb800 [0xb807].
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I am still at such a loss...
Could it be a PNP kernel param or something in my BIOS? Here's what I have as far as PNP in my kernel: | Quote: | CONFIG_PNP=y
# CONFIG_PNP_DEBUG is not set
# CONFIG_ISAPNP is not set
# CONFIG_PNPBIOS is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEPNP is not set
# CONFIG_IP_PNP is not set |
I'll try enabling them...
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| Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2003 10:11 pm Post subject: |
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I just don't understand why this isn't working... it is only when I load 'snd-au8820' that the NIC stops working... here's what I see from dmesg if I try to ping: | Code: | NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
eth0: Tx timed out, cable problem? TSR=0x43, ISR=0x0, t=471.
Hw. address read/write mismap 0
Hw. address read/write mismap 1
Hw. address read/write mismap 2
Hw. address read/write mismap 3
Hw. address read/write mismap 4
Hw. address read/write mismap 5
eth0: timeout waiting for Tx RDC.
Hw. address read/write mismap 0
Hw. address read/write mismap 1
Hw. address read/write mismap 2
Hw. address read/write mismap 3
Hw. address read/write mismap 4
Hw. address read/write mismap 5
eth0: trigger_send() called with the transmitter busy.
eth0: timeout waiting for Tx RDC.
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and here's what I see in '/var/log/kernel/current': | Code: | Sep 8 16:15:25 [kernel] eth0: trigger_send() called with the transmitter busy.
Sep 8 16:15:27 [kernel] NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
Sep 8 16:15:27 [kernel] eth0: timeout waiting for Tx RDC.
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and | Code: | Sep 8 16:34:25 [kernel] eth0: mismatched read page pointers 0 vs 62.
Sep 8 16:34:26 [kernel] eth0: mismatched read page pointers 0 vs 1.
Sep 8 16:34:27 [kernel] eth0: mismatched read page pointers 0 vs 1.
Sep 8 16:34:28 [kernel] eth0: mismatched read page pointers 0 vs 1.
Sep 8 16:34:32 [kernel] eth0: mismatched read page pointers 0 vs 1.
Sep 8 16:34:38 [kernel] eth0: mismatched read page pointers 0 vs 1.
Sep 8 16:34:51 [kernel] eth0: mismatched read page pointers 0 vs 1.
Sep 8 16:34:53 [kernel] eth0: trigger_send() called with the transmitter busy.
Sep 8 16:34:54 [kernel] NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
Sep 8 16:34:55 [kernel] eth0: timeout waiting for Tx RDC.
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What the heck???
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MrChucho
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| Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2003 1:53 am Post subject: |
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Without 'snd-au8820' module loaded, 'dmesg': | Code: | ne.c:v1.10 9/23/94 Donald Becker (becker@scyld.com)
Last modified Nov 1, 2000 by Paul Gortmaker
NE*000 ethercard probe at 0x300: MAC ADDRESS
eth0: NE2000 found at 0x300, using IRQ 5. |
With 'snd-au8820' module loaded, 'dmesg': | Code: | ne.c:v1.10 9/23/94 Donald Becker (becker@scyld.com)
Last modified Nov 1, 2000 by Paul Gortmaker
NE*000 ethercard probe at 0x300: not found (invalid signature be be).
ne.c: No NE*000 card found at i/o = 0x300 |
What gives?
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| I got the same problem after I did start alsa, i don't know what gives, but i'm trying to compile the network support not as module and see what happenes... |
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