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To: alsa-user@alsa.jcu.cz
Subject: Is ALSA stable enough?
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1998 16:58:55 +0900
From: SAITO Jun <kyto@is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
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Hi people.

I just switched from Linux UltraSound Project driver to ALSA driver
and I'm experiencing terrible crashes. Previous UltraSound driver
wasn't perfectly stable on my system, but ALSA is much worse. After I
play something for several minutes, ALSA seems to make other harmless
programs (like bash, login) to cause GPF, and the system dies.

I'd like to know if this is the case to anyone else. If ALSA is
supposed to be stable enough for everyone, I might spend a little more 
time trying to get it to work. If not, then, I can always go back to
good old UltraSound driver ;).

My system is Pentium 90MHz, GUS PnP w/ 8Mb RAM, running Linux 2.0.34
and using libc6. I'm suspecting that the driver is not tested
extensively enough with libc6.

BTW, I haven't tried the latest driver yet. I'll do that when I get
home tonight.


Cheers,

Jun Saito
kyto@is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp

