[Alsa-devel] Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: any update on the pcmcia bug blocking Audigy2 notebook sound card driver development

[Takashi Iwai]

At Tue, 09 Aug 2005 02:54:49 -0400,
Lee Revell wrote:
> 
> [added James to cc:]
> 
> On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 09:40 -0700, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> > On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 10:43, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > Raymond Lai <raymond.kk.lai at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Hi all,
> > > > 
> > > > I remember there's a kernel pcmcia bug preventing the development for 
> > > > the Audigy2 pcmcia notebook sound card driver. 
> > > > 
> > > > See http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc/index.php?vendor=vendor-Creative_Labs#matrix
> > > > 
> > > > Is there any new updates on the situation? Has the bug been fixed? or
> > > > anyone working on it?
> > >
> > > Is it related to http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4788 ?
> > 
> > I think not, the card in question is the Creative Audigy 2 ZS PCMCIA
> > card. I have one I can't use yet :-( The kernel locks hard when ALSA
> > tries to load the driver. 
> 
> Maybe we should have the emu10k1 driver not claim the device until this
> is fixed.  It's better than locking the machine (this behavior has been
> confirmed by several other users).

It seems to have the same PCI ID.  If the probing phase already
triggers the hang up, we can't stop it.


Takashi