Bug 60573 – Gentoo doesn't boot after installing alsa-driver 1.0.5a on a gentoo-dev-sources 2.6.8 kernel

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Bernd Stapf 2004-08-16 11:05:20 UTC]

I've installed a kernel from gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.8 and it worked fine.

After the first boot I've emerged alsa-driver-1.0.5a an now it stops booting at the alsasound init script.

I've got a soundblaster live and use the emu10k1 driver.
alsa-driver 1.0.5a and gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.7-r13 is working great btw.

[Comment 1 Bernd Stapf 2004-08-16 11:07:25 UTC]

Created attachment 37545 [details]
My kernel config

This is the config I used compiling the kernel.

[Comment 2 David Bergstein 2004-08-18 20:14:05 UTC]

I saw similar behavior with gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.8 and alsa-driver-1.0.5a with the cs46xx driver.  I was able to force the system to continue booting by pressing CRTL-C at the hangup on the alsasound initscript, however this resulted in what appeared to be a serious memory leak once I loaded the KDE 3.2.3 desktop.  This gave me little choice other than performing a hard reset.

I'll stick with gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.7-r14 for now.

[Comment 3 Bernd Stapf 2004-08-19 23:35:12 UTC]

I've the same Problem with gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.8-r1

[Comment 4 Daniel Drake (RETIRED) 2004-09-05 03:18:57 UTC]

What about if you use the alsa driver included in the kernel? Or if you really need the newer versions, does userspace alsa-driver-1.0.6 give the same problem?

[Comment 5 Bernd Stapf 2004-09-05 06:35:26 UTC]

alsa-utils-1.0.6 aren't working too (with alsa-driver 1.0.5) but the kernel-driver seems to be working fine.