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To: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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Subject: Re: snd in -current, vmix, misc 
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Date: Sun, 12 May 1996 23:56:05 -0700
From: "Amancio Hasty Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
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> > On Sun, 12 May 1996, Christoph P. Kukulies wrote:
> > 
> > > I compiled a -current kernel with snd01041996-2.2-current.tgz:
> > >
> > > May 12 18:06:42 isdn-kukulies /kernel: isa_dmastart: channel 1 busy
> > > and continously the message 'isa_dmastart: channel 1 busy' on the screen.
> > >
> > > What's the cause of this?
> > 
> > This is caused by the sound driver failing to report that the dma
> > operation has been completed.  For now, until the sound driver in -current
> > is up to par, you can just comment this message out of isa.c
> 
> Could the excessive occurance of this message or that fact that it is there
> lead to stability problems? Reason I'm asking is:
> 
> Yesterday while playing with vat 4.0a8 I got a total system freeze 
> which was preceded by a somewhat jumpy mouse action. I moved the
> mouse cursor in and out of the vat window and suddenly the mouse arrow
> warped to a different location. I was speaking into the mic and was
> playing with the button below of the mic (the one that turns into
> a different icon now when clicking on it). Then I clicked in the title
> bar of the vat window and, pugh - freeze.

Nope thats probably something else related to the sound driver and 2.2
because vat so far over here has not crashed my system;however, I am
running 2.1-STABLE.


	Amancio