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From: "Piniek (aka Piotr Ingling)" <pingling@elka.pw.edu.pl>
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Subject: Re: enable_irq() ubalanced and matroxfb problems
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Dnia Mon, 28 Dec 1998 16:26:53 -0700, napisae (-a):

>On 28 Dec 98, at 22:48, Piniek (aka Piotr Ingling) wrote:
>> With kernel 2.1.132 I get (it comes from arch/i386/kernel/irq.c - in
>> earlier kernels there was no test against that 'balance'):
>> 
>> snd-sb8: enable_irq() unbalanced from 00000007
>> snd-gusclassic: enable_irq unbalanced from 0000000b
>> 
>> during loading of the drivers. Should I worry about it?
>> 
>> And the second thing - when I load matroxfb, ALSA drivers stop working
>> correctly. I can play something but after about one second the sound turns
>> into terrible scratching noises (timidity, mpg123, MikMOD). Sometimes
>> restarting ALSA helps but not always. As long as there's no matroxfb,
>> everything is OK. Is that bug in matroxfb or in ALSA?
>> 
>> I'm using driver 0.2.0pre10p2 (SBPro+GUS ACE).
>
>Hi,
>	I don't know about your first problem, but I am using kernel 2.1.132,
>matroxfb and the ALSA drivers with no problems.  Are you running a stock
>2.1.132? I have applied Alan Cox's patch-2.1.132ac2 patch set to my stock
>2.1.132.  I don't know if that may have fixed something.  Also, I use
>an Ensoniq AudioPCI card, so your problem may be card specific.  Are you 
>seeing that enable_irq() unbalanced both with and without the matroxfb, or
>only when the matroxfb is loaded?

It happens with and without matroxfb. And switching to driver 0.3.0-pre1 and
kernel 2.2.0-pre1 didn't help. Since 2.2.0-pre1 contains patches from Alan Cox
the problem must be somewhere else...

                         Piotr Ingling

                e-mail: pingling@elka.pw.edu.pl

