[PlanetCCRMA] alsa crashes my system

[Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano]

> i installed the kernel-up#2.4.19-1.ll at i686                                                   
>                 alsa-driver-2.4.19-1.ll
>                 alsa-driver
>                 alsa-lib
>                 alsa-utils
>                 alsa-tools
> on my RedHat 8.0 system.
> I reboot with the new kernel and it woked.
> 
> But when i start alsaconf i get the message,that it can´t find any card.
> My soundcard "SEKD Prodif Plus " is supported by the Alsa driver.
> So i configured my modules.conf like the Alsa sound matrix told me :
>  
>      # ALSA portion
>         alias char-major-116 snd
>         alias snd-card-0 snd-pdplus
> 	# module options should go here
> 
>         # OSS/Free portion
>         alias char-major-14 soundcore
>         alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
> 	
> 	# card #1
> 	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
> 
>   and loaded the modules:
>   modprobe snd-pdplus;modprobe snd-pcm-oss;modprobe              snd-mixer-oss;modprobe snd-seq-oss
> 
> Now the system crashes (it froze)
> Even a reboot does not help the system crashed initializing kde.
> 
> Before i installed the new kernel i used the redhat kernel
> 2.4.18-19.8.0 with the alsa kernel and driver from freshrpms.net, my card 
> works very fine with this kernel and drivers (never tried alsaconf
> with it ).

That must be a bug in alsa cvs then. Freshrpms uses rc6, which
regretfully is broken for many ice1712 cards. 

> So what can i do to use your kernel with my card ????

You could try rebuilding the freshrpms source rpms for alsa rc6 for the
Planet CCRMA kernel. 

-- Fernando