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

[James Courtier-Dutton]

Anyone wishing to help fix this, please see:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5057

Takashi Iwai wrote:
> 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
> 
> 

Please see
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5057