Bug#376382: [Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#376382: alsa-base: MIDI playback on SB Live! 5.1 0220 combine with heavy disk activity = lockup

Elimar Riesebieter riesebie at lxtec.de
Sun Jul 2 15:31:12 UTC 2006


On Sun, 02 Jul 2006 the mental interface of
Arthur Marsh told:

> Package: alsa-base
> Version: 1.0.11-2
> Severity: important
> 
> 
> I initially thought I had a problem with denemo, but was able to 
> reproduce a complete system lockup when playing MIDI files, given 
> sufficient hard disk activity using:
> 
> aplaymidi -p17:0
> playmidi -a
> kmid
> 
> The first 2 were tried under twm, all 3 methods were tried under KDE.
> 
> Any suggestions on further debugging steps welcome.

I have a soudblaster with emu10k1 chip. Following midi modules are
loaded:
snd_seq_virmidi
snd_seq_midi_emul
snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event
snd_rawmidi

Can you confirm?

Else make sure no artsd is running to with aplaymidi.

Elimar


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