[PlanetCCRMA] fc3: kernel update

Tue Dec 28 18:11:02 2004

On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 17:45, Kevin Ernste wrote:
> Thanks as always, Fernando, for the help.  It was dying with:
> 
> gdb_hook_interrupt: Could not clear IER, not a UART!
> 
> Hmm, I thought, interrupt handling?  Low and behold my BIOS was set
> with PIC rather than APIC.  It now boots fine.

Good to know that it boots.... cryptic error message... :-)

> However the problem I was hoping to solve with this update, the goofy
> metering in HDSPmixer, appears to be a little worse.  The mixer shows
> immovable max-amp levels on the first 7 inputs despite nothing being
> connected, and playing a stereo soundfile shows only max-amp level in
> the first channel, nothing at all in the second.

Rats...

> I hope that others who responded to my previous HDSP thread with
> similar issues will have better luck ;)

Well, it seems it is an issue with the alsa-tools package. I'll see if I
can update to a still later version soon (current 1.0.7-1.cvs is from
Dec 12 - a build I tried with a newer one failed so I stayed with that
one). 

-- Fernando

> On 28 Dec 2004 16:38:10 -0800, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
> <nando@ccrma.stanford.edu> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 13:35, Kevin Ernste wrote:
> > > Hi Fernando -
> > >
> > > I'm on FC3 using 2.6.8.1-1.520.2vS7.ll with only a few caveates
> > > mentioned previously with respect to the HDSPmixer.  I would love to
> > > upgrade but both kernels fail to boot for me, stopping at:
> > >
> > > Uncompressing kernel...OK
> > > audit {XXXX:XXX} initialized
> > >
> > > ...that's the message approzimately as there seems to be no record in
> > > the boot log or dmesgs.  I'll take a closer look at the kernel
> > > changelog and see if anything sticks out.
> > 
> > Try to make it print more information by disabling the graphical boot,
> > when in the grub prompt select the new kernel, press "e" to edit, then
> > go to the kernel line, press "e" again and erase the "rhgb quiet" part
> > at the end of the line. Press <enter> and then "b" (for boot).
> > 
> > > Could this be a hardware thing, mobo/chipset?  My setup:
> > >
> > > ASUS P4GE-V mobo (ICH4 bridge)
> > > P4 2.4
> > > DDR RAM
> > > RME HDSP PCI
> > 
> > Hard to know without more information about what is going on in the boot
> > process.
> > 
> > -- Fernando
> > 
> > > On 27 Dec 2004 19:02:59 -0800, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano
> > > <nando@ccrma.stanford.edu> wrote:
> > > > Hi all, just released and already an update :-) Due to a security
> > > > privilege scalation bug I have released new fc3 kernels with an
> > > > appropriate patch. I learned about this issue through a post from Frank
> > > > Barknecht in the linux-audio-devel list. An "apt-get update" "apt-get
> > > > dist-upgrade" should bring the upgrade in through the planetccrma-core
> > > > package.
> > > >
> > > > I have also added two meta packages that only install the kernel, rtload
> > > > and rtirq, the alsa kernel modules and the alsa-driver package. Those
> > > > should help if you want to mix Planet CCRMA with other repositories that
> > > > may have "newer" (according to the rpm internal comparison of version
> > > > and release numbers) versions of alsa-lib and other alsa-* packages. The
> > > > names of the packages are "planetccrma-kernel" and
> > > > "planetccrma-kernel-smp".
> > > >
> > > > Upgrade and enjoy!
> > > >
> > > > (this delayed the release of the fc2 kernels, I'm not going to release
> > > > something that I _know_ is buggy. I'll probably rebuild overnight and
> > > > release tomorrow).
> > > >
> > > > -- Fernando
> > > >
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