Hi,

I have a new problem with the vx222 driver on SuSE. It seems to be be partly kernel dependent, since it occured after a kernel update followed by a reinstallation of alsa.

System: SuSE 8.2 / latest patches installed with YaST - k_athlon-2.4.20-102 - kernel-source-2.4.20.SuSE-102

I configured and compiled the kernel sources # cd /usr/src/linux ; make menuconfig ; make

I downloaded and installed alsa-1.0.2c from source: +alsa-driver: # ./configure --with-cards=vx222 --with-sequencer=yes --with-oss=yes \ --with-moddir=/lib/modules/`uname -r`/alsa && \ # make clean && make && checkinstall +alsa-lib: # ./configure && make clean && make && checkinstall +alsa-utils: # ./configure && make clean && make && checkinstall + alsa-tools: # ( cd vxloader ; ./configure && make clean && make ) && \ ( checkinstall "cd vxloader ; make install" ) + alsa-firmware: # ./configure && make clean && make && \ checkinstall "cd vxloader ; make install"

When I start alsa (after a reboot, of course!), I have the following messages on the console:

-----8<----- # /etc/init.d/alsasound start Starting sound driver: snd-vx222 Warning: ignoring cards_limit=1, no such parameter in this module Module snd loaded, with warnings Module snd-hwdep loaded, with warnings Module snd-timer loaded, with warnings Module snd-pcm loaded, with warnings Module snd-vx-lib loaded, with warnings Module snd-vx222 loaded, with warnings vxloader: error in loading /usr/local/share/alsa/firmware/vxloader/l_1_v22.d56 /lib/modules/2.4.20-4GB-athlon/alsa/snd-vx222.o: post-install snd-vx222 failed /lib/modules/2.4.20-4GB-athlon/alsa/snd-vx222.o: insmod snd-vx222 failed done -----8<-----

And those ones in /var/log/message :

-----8<----- Feb 10 09:57:20 musipop modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module snd-card-1 Feb 10 09:57:20 musipop modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module snd-card-1 Feb 10 09:57:20 musipop modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module snd-card-2 Feb 10 09:57:20 musipop modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module snd-card-2 Feb 10 09:57:20 musipop modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module snd-card-3 Feb 10 09:57:20 musipop modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module snd-card-3 Feb 10 09:57:21 musipop kernel: ALSA memory.c:76: Not freed snd_alloc_kmalloc = 388 Feb 10 09:57:21 musipop kernel: ALSA memory.c:86: kmalloc(388) from c56c0e5f not freed Feb 10 09:57:21 musipop kernel: PCI: Setting latency timer of device 01:08.0 to 64 Feb 10 09:57:23 musipop kernel: ALSA control.c:209: BUG? (ncontrol->info != ((void *)0)) (called from df8db9e1) Feb 10 09:57:23 musipop kernel: ALSA control.c:256: ERROR (card != ((void *)0) && kcontrol != ((void *)0)) (called from df8db9ee) -----8<-----

I checked my /etc/modules.conf.local , but everything seems ok:

-----8<----- # ALSA portion alias char-major-116 snd # module options should go here options snd cards_limit=1

# OSS/Free portion alias char-major-14 soundcore alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0

# Card #1 alias snd-card-0 snd-vx222 alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss

post-install snd-vx222 /usr/local/bin/vxloader -c 0 -----8<-----

It's not a hardware problem, since it worked fine before I upgraded the kernel & alsa (kernel 2.4.20-101 / alsa-1.0.0rc2). I tried to install alsa-1.0.0rc2 on the latest patched kernel, but had the same error messages as with alsa-1.0.2, so it seems more likely to have something to do with the kernel update.

I updated the kernel because of a SuSE security annoucement ( http:// lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2004-Jan/0001.html ) They did something about a do_mremap() function in the kernel. Perhaps is that the problem?

Any clue?