ALSA 1.0.15 update test kernels available

[Chuck Ebbert]

On 10/26/2007 02:32 PM, Jon Masters wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 17:33 -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
>> We are considering adding ALSA 1.0.15 to the Fedora 8 release. This
>> would get us up-to-date with the latest audio drivers and fix many
>> problems with audio drivers not working, or only partially working.
>>
>> Test kernels for i686 and x86_64 are available at:
>>
>>   http://people.redhat.com/cebbert/kernels/F8/
>>
>> Also, kernel 2.6.23.1-36 has the update and is now building.
>>
>> It would be very helpful if people would test these kernels and reply
>> to this message with their experiences, so we can see if this update
>> causes any problems.
> 
> It looks like you've introduced an unintentional side-effect in this
> latest test kernel, that prevented testing, and means that I think it
> shouldn't be considered as the final F8 candidate kernel (Jesse hinted
> that this might be the case otherwise).
> 
> Specifically, either nash is unhappy, you changed the kernel config, or
> some other module is busted - I'll start thinking about what - but you
> end up with a modprobe fork bomb taking down my machine.
> 
> Audio is at best extremely dicey on my (Nvidia HDA) and certainly not
> suitable for productive use as a Linux desktop ;-)
> 

Did it work in the previous kernel? What codec is yours using?
Is your rawhide installation up-to-date with the latest mkinitrd?