[PlanetCCRMA] fc3: kernel update

[Kevin Ernste]

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.

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.

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

Happy Holidays.

Kevin



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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