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

[Arthur Marsh]

Elimar Riesebieter wrote:

> Ok, at this point I am a little clueless. If you have a livecd like
> Knoppix, ubuntu or grml boot it and try again to play midi files.
> If that fails as well, I would suggeset your midi files are corrupt
> or your soundcard has a "midi failure". If it doesn't fail it must
> be a dissconfigured Sytem on your harddrive. But where?

I've tried a few different MIDI files, even tried running playmidi -a 
from one vt and aptitude -u under a different vt (ie not under the X 
window system), and still experienced the lock-up.

The CPU is fully utilised (zero idle time reported by top) but this 
shouldn't result in a lock-up.

I note that other EMU10K1 owners have reported the same problem. Perhaps 
a bug with the EMU10K1 driver gets triggered under heavy disk activity?

Regards,

Arthur.