Re: Tyan S2464 (K7 SMP) + EMU10K1 hardlocks

[Andre Bonin]

Alan Cox wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-06-07 at 18:44, Andre Bonin wrote:
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>>Creative Labs warns that it's sblive series of cards aren't compatible 
>>with SMP systems.  Though i've had the S2460 motherboard and the only 
>>trouble i have had was that EAX didn't work properly.  A friend of mine 
>>has an sblive with a dual celeron and he also has had this problem of 
>>deadlocks with the SBLive.  The audigy however is fully compatible.
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> On Linux at least I've never had a problem with the SB Live since the
> SMP bugs in earlier 2.4 trees got fixed (and they were kernel bugs). I
> can well believe the SB emulation magic doesn't work with old games in
> SMP mode but we don't drive it in any emulation mode nor need to
> 

It may be that there software, livewear, is buggy on SMP systems. Again 
it's cryptic, they do not state if it is the board or only the driver.

Like i said, i've been running windowsXP/linux2.5.20 on a dual athlon 
motherboard (Tyan S2460 before it busted, now i have an Asus A7M-266) 
and both worked fine.  My friend's dual celeron didn't take the sblive 
too nicley.

It could also be a power supply issue.  Maby the sound card is the drop 
that spills the glass.

I found

http://www.americas.creative.com/support/kbase/article.asp?ID=473&Centric=108

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