RE: Soundblaster 512 Freezes my Alpha (164LX). Any ideas?

[Allen Ziegenfus <aziegenfus mindspring com>]

Well thanks to the help on this list, I was able to boot from SRM using
a floppy. Unfortunately neither that nor using the latest kernel (2.4.19)
helps matters. My soundcard still freezes my machine.

One question -- is there a way I can just mount the root filesystem
readonly so that when the soundcard crashes my computer, I don't
have to go through the lengthy task of checking the filesystem
when I reboot? I tried passing "ro" to the kernel at boot up, but
it still mounts it as read write. I noticed in the rc files that
it explicitly mounts the root file system as read write there. How
can I override that?

SRM seems pretty nice, but I do notice that my clock is wildly off
most of the time. (It was generally off before, but now it is wildly off).

I suppose I'll try Alsa next. Or I guess I can try to debug the
sound card driver. Anybody have any other bright ideas?

Thanks (in advance, or just in general),

Allen Z.

On Sun, 8 Sep 2002, Peter Petrakis wrote:

> Hi,
>
> What's stopping you from booting directly from SRM???
> <snip>
> Peter
> --
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: axp-list-admin@redhat.com [mailto:axp-list-admin@redhat.com]On
> > Behalf Of Allen Ziegenfus
> > Sent: Sunday, September 08, 2002 4:49 AM
> > To: Red Hat Alpha List
> > Subject: Soundblaster 512 Freezes my Alpha (164LX). Any ideas?
> >
> >
> > I've been trying to get a sound card to work in my alpha for the
> > past week to no avail. If anybody can help me I'll be most grateful.
> >
> > The problem is that whenever I go to play any sound, the system
> > completely freezes so that I have to reboot.
> >
> > My system is a 533 MHZ PC164LX with AlphaBios 5.66 and RH 7.1. This
> > sound card is PCI, and I have one other PCI card (my Matrox video
> > card) as well as two older ISA cards (modem and parallel port card).
> >