Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 06:26:06 -0500 (CDT) From: "Conrad J. Sabatier" <conrads@cox.net> To: Rusty Nejdl <rnejdl@ringofsaturn.com> Cc: dnelson@allantgroup.com Subject: Re: Is anything being done re: the pcm timeout issue? Message-ID: <XFMail.20040811062606.conrads@cox.net> In-Reply-To: <49521.66.13.175.242.1092194974.squirrel@[66.13.175.242]>
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On 11-Aug-2004 Rusty Nejdl wrote: > >>> >>> And I have seen that these will eventually stop working one by one >>> until I have none left. lsof and fstat don't show any programs >>> using >>> them, but nonetheless, programms like xmms and gaim can't use them >>> anymore. > > Well, try as much as I could, I haven't been able to duplicate this > tonight. I've got 4 vchans setup and I was running madplay > continuously on 4 channels for 4 hours and it worked the whole time. > >> >> The vchan code is fairly broken. I was hoping to have to some time >> to >> work on this (and other problems in the top half of the sound code) >> before >> 5.3, but it looks like the clock has just about run out. > > I'm not seeing the locked channels yet, but that doesn't mean that > they aren't there. I do appreciate your looking into this matter. So far, with my latest kernel, I haven't experienced the problem yet, either. Which doesn't necessarily mean, of course, that I still won't. :-) There's definitely the possibility that it's not really a sound issue at all, but just the drivers' sensitivity to something else going on in the kernel. Unfortunately, my knowledge/understanding of the low-level operations of the kernel is practically nil, so I really can't comment on that in any sort of intelligent or useful fashion. :-) I'll keep my fingers crossed here; maybe the problem will just "go away" (or already has). :-) I'll keep you posted if I still see any problems. Thanks again. -- Conrad J. Sabatier <conrads@cox.net> -- "In Unix veritas"
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