I emerged media-gfx/picasa in my stable x86 system and worked well. When I updated ALSA from 1.0.12 to 1.0.13, it doesn't work anymore. I've tried to emerge it again, but it didn't solve the problem. $ emerge --info Portage 2.1.1-r1 (default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r4, 2.6.17-gentoo-r8 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.17-gentoo-r8 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.80GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.12.6 Last Sync: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 14:50:01 +0000 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.30 dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.3 dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.60 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=i686 -mtune=pentium4 -O3 -pipe -fstack-protector" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb /var/bind" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-march=i686 -mtune=pentium4 -O3 -pipe -fstack-protector" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig candy ccache collision-protect distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.mirrors.tds.net/gentoo http://open-systems.ufl.edu/mirrors/gentoo http://mirror.espri.arizona.edu/gentoo/ http://cudlug.cudenver.edu/gentoo/ http://ftp.swin.edu.au/gentoo http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://www.ibiblio.org/gentoo http://gentoo.osuosl.org" LANG="es_MX.UTF-8" LINGUAS="es" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X Xaw3d a52 aac aalib acl acpi alsa apache2 audiofile avahi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cairo caps cdr cli cracklib crypt cscope cups curl dbus dga dlloader dri dv dvd eds elibc_glibc emboss encode esd exif fam fbcon firefox flac foomaticdb fortran gcj gd gdbm gif gimp glut gmp gnome gnutls gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtkhtml guile hal iconv imagemagick imap imlib input_devices_evdev input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse ipv6 isdnlog jack java jbig joystick jpeg kerberos kernel_linux krb4 lcms ldap libcaca libg++ libgda linguas_es logrotate mad mikmod mmx mng mono motif mp3 mpeg mssql mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg opengl oss pam pcre pda pdf perl pic plotutils png postgres ppds pppd prelude python qt3 quicktime readline reflection samba sasl sdl session slp sndfile snmp speex spell spl sse ssl svg tcpd tetex theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb userland_GNU v4l v4l2 vhosts video_cards_fbdev video_cards_nv video_cards_nvidia video_cards_v4l video_cards_vesa vorbis win32codecs wmf xinerama xml xorg xpm xprint xv xvid zlib" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
We need to see the actual kernel oops you get; hard to guess. Thanks. :)
Here's the oops: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000001 printing eip: f934eef1 *pde = 00000000 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT Modules linked in: pwc compat_ioctl32 videodev nvidia agpgart ipv6 snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_seq_dummy snd_seq_oss snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq snd_usb_audio snd_usb_lib snd_rawmidi snd_seq_device snd_hwdep snd_intel8x0 snd_ac97_codec snd_ac97_bus snd_pcm snd_timer snd snd_page_alloc joydev tsdev usbhid uhci_hcd usbcore ide_cd cdrom e100 mii CPU: 0 EIP: 0060:[<f934eef1>] Tainted: P VLI EFLAGS: 00010202 (2.6.17-gentoo-r8 #1) EIP is at snd_interval_list+0x39/0xba [snd_pcm] eax: 00000001 ebx: 00000001 ecx: 00000000 edx: 00000001 esi: ee3ad928 edi: 00000015 ebp: ddfc3e0c esp: ddfc3ca0 ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 Process Picasa2 (pid: 29655, threadinfo=ddfc2000 task=e61f8070) Stack: 00000017 f71e5ee0 000002e0 ddfc3e0c f9351012 ee3ad928 00000001 00000001 00000015 f934cc59 ee3ad800 f71e5ee0 00000002 00000003 00000004 00000005 00000006 00000007 00000008 00000009 0000000a 0000000b 0000000c 0000000d Call Trace: <f9351012> snd_pcm_hw_constraint_integer+0x3d1/0x80a [snd_pcm] <f934cc59> snd_pcm_hw_refine+0x3e2/0x2126 [snd_pcm] <f93a3539> snd_pcm_oss_write3+0xcb2/0x20c6 [snd_pcm_oss] <f93a4446> snd_pcm_oss_write3+0x1bbf/0x20c6 [snd_pcm_oss] <f934e0a7> snd_pcm_hw_refine+0x1830/0x2126 [snd_pcm] <f93a40c9> snd_pcm_oss_write3+0x1842/0x20c6 [snd_pcm_oss] <f93a515e> snd_pcm_oss_read3+0x811/0x15a6 [snd_pcm_oss] <f934ea02> snd_pcm_kernel_ioctl+0x65/0x133 [snd_pcm] <f93a5ab7> snd_pcm_oss_read3+0x116a/0x15a6 [snd_pcm_oss] <f93a5e56> snd_pcm_oss_read3+0x1509/0x15a6 [snd_pcm_oss] <c01580d4> __fput+0xa3/0x1a9 <c0155568> filp_close+0x49/0x6d <c0156a74> sys_close+0x65/0x9b <c0102aa7> sysenter_past_esp+0x54/0x75 Code: 24 1c 8b 7c 24 20 85 db 74 4c 31 c9 eb 0e 72 56 83 c1 01 39 cb 90 8d 74 26 00 74 3a 85 ff 74 0b b8 01 00 00 00 d3 e0 85 f8 74 e5 <8b> 04 8a 39 06 75 dc f6 46 08 01 75 d8 31 ed eb 35 89 c3 89 46 EIP: [<f934eef1>] snd_interval_list+0x39/0xba [snd_pcm] SS:ESP 0068:ddfc3ca0 <7>
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For some systems alsa-driver-1.0.13 has this bug with 2.6.17 kernel. Try with .18.
this seems to be a problem with alsa. see bug 155265
(In reply to comment #4) > For some systems alsa-driver-1.0.13 has this bug with 2.6.17 kernel. Try with > .18. > You're right. I tried with 2.6.18 kernel, and Picasa works fine.
If you need .17, file a bug with ALSA upstream to resolve it.
