Re: 2.4.19 -- ac97_codec failure ALi 5451

[Peter]

I've downloaded the latest driver and am running 2.4.20 (yea!) -- the trident.c here 
is actually more recent than 2.5.55. It now loads fast and with no protest from 
ac97_codec, which has a new ID (ADS114). However, there's still not a peep (I try 
cat test.mp3 > /dev/dsp) -- and when KDE Control Center tries to restart the arts 
sound server, it alarmingly fails on "CPU overload" or just freezes the whole 
system. Is there anything I can do to get more information about what is not 
happening?

Cheers,
Peter

Trident 4DWave/SiS 7018/ALi 5451,Tvia CyberPro 5050 PCI Audio, version 0.14.10h, 
Enabling device 00:06.0 (0000 -> 0003)
PCI: Assigned IRQ 5 for device 00:06.0
trident: ALi Audio Accelerator found at IO 0x1000, IRQ 5
ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: ADS114(Unknown)
ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: ADS114(Unknown)
PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 00:06.0
gameport0: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M5451 PCI AC-Link Controller Audio Device at 
pci00:06.0 speed 1924 kHz

Quoting Alan Cox <[e-mail]>:

> >         Trident 4DWave/SiS 7018/ALi 5451,Tvia CyberPro 5050 PCI Audio, 
> > 		version 0.14.9d, 00:57:19 Jan  9 2003
> >         PCI: Enabling device 00:06.0 (0000 -> 0003)
> >         PCI: Assigned IRQ 10 for device 00:06.0
> >         trident: ALi Audio Accelerator found at IO 0x1000, IRQ 10
> >         ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: 0x4144:0x5372 (Unknown)
> 
> So far so good.
> 
> >         ali: AC97 CODEC read timed out.
> >         last message repeated 127 times
> >         ali: AC97 CODEC write timed out.
> >         ac97_codec: AC97  codec, id: 0x0000:0x0000 (Unknown)
> 
> Something lost the codec. Could be power management - was the laptop
> suspended before it went funny ?
> 
> Alan
>