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Date:      Thu, 16 Aug 2001 12:04:13 +0300
From:      Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il>
To:        Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: help needed, kernel autoconf gets stuck 
Message-ID:  <E15XJ4X-0006j6-00@sexta.cs.huji.ac.il>
In-Reply-To: Message from Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl>  of "Thu, 16 Aug 2001 10:24:32 %2B0200." <20010816102432.F18720@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> 

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> On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 11:19:57AM +0300, Danny Braniss wrote:
> > hi,
> > 	i posted this yesterday, but no one bit, so here we go again:
> > 
> >  adding 'snd_ich_load="YES"' will cause the kernel autoconf to hang (sometimes)
> >  after isa_probe_children(...) and before configure_final(...)
> > 
> >  when it doesn't get stuck, all systems work fine, X11/sound etc.
> > 
> > so i narrowed it down, my guess it's an unexpected/unwanted interrupt.
> > 
> > now i'm stuck too, since i have no idea how to figure out who/why is 
> > interrupting.
> > 
> > thanks,
> > 	danny
> 
> Aha! This is what I've been seeing too - although I didn't realize it
> was the sound subsystem, because I compiled pcm into the kernel.
> It's not a guaranteed hang however, sometimes the kernel boots, sometimes
> it doesn't. It gets stuck more consistently when using boot -v however.
> 
in my case it actually worked first time with verbose, but then it also
hung :-(
> I can confirm this wasn't the case in my 4.3 kernel, but that's probably
> because the ICH sound driver wasn't activated back then.
> 
i installed the ich back then and it hung too, but had no time to follow it.

> What motherboard do you have? I have an Intel i815e (Dell Optiplex G115).
> 
same here, but it also happens with a HP-epc, the common link is the i815e and 
co.

> Would opening a PR help?
> 

go ahead, i don't know - yet - how to PR.

danny



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