Linxuant Riptide Driver on RH9 Causes Oops?
 

(this is a reposted message from another thread with a less informative title)

Hello, All,

I'm trying to get a Riptide audio controller to work correctly in Red Hat 9, as it's the card that came with the PC I'm using to run Linux for the first time. Apparently several people have had some level of success with the card, and I'm wondering if anyone has experienced the sort of problems I'm having,

I got the drivers from the Linuxant site.

I installed the RPM as root and ran 'ripconfig'.

I rebooted.

I ran the volume control and jiggled the main volume slider, while playing some sounds in the sound preferences control panel. This actually brought some sound for the first time!

However, the soundcard seems to intermittently wig out and start playing all kinds of noise. It will spontaneously recover from this. It seems like whenever it happens, a message like this pops up in the 'dmesg' log:

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Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address cc937000
printing eip:
c0253c6f
*pde = 01806067
*pte = 00000000
Oops: 0002
ide-cd cdrom riptidelow riptidesound opl3 mpu401 sound riptideint soundcore parport_pc lp parport autofs 8139too mii keybdev mousedev hid input usb-uhci usbco
CPU: 0
EIP: 0060:[<c0253c6f>] Tainted: P
EFLAGS: 00010246

EIP is at zlib_inflate_flush [kernel] 0x350f (2.4.20-30.9)
eax: 00000000 ebx: 00001000 ecx: 00000100 edx: 08055450
esi: 08055350 edi: cc937000 ebp: c3dcdf20 esp: c3dcdee0
ds: 0068 es: 0068 ss: 0068
Process esd (pid: 2312, stackpage=c3dcd000)
Stack: 00000000 00000100 00001000 0014f100 c0837480 cc8f98f5 cc936100 08054450
00001000 00001000 cc936100 c78bab94 00000000 00000000 c832a780 c4220c80
c3dcdf40 cc8f99b5 c0837480 08054450 00001000 cc8fce20 c3dcc000 00000000
Call Trace: [<cc8f98f5>] RipTidePutToBuffer [riptidelow] 0x259 (0xc3dcdef4))
[<cc8f99b5>] RipTideAddBuffer [riptidelow] 0x1d (0xc3dcdf24))
[<cc8fce20>] func_table [riptidelow] 0x0 (0xc3dcdf34))
[<cc8f3b61>] rt_write_dsp [riptidesound] 0x79 (0xc3dcdf44))
[<cc8f47a7>] rt_write [riptidesound] 0x4f (0xc3dcdf74))
[<c01477f3>] sys_write [kernel] 0xa3 (0xc3dcdf94))
[<c010953f>] system_call [kernel] 0x33 (0xc3dcdfc0))


Code: f3 aa 58 59 e9 19 81 ff ff ba f2 ff ff ff e9 65 81 ff ff ba
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Does anybody know what this means? It seems like something fairly low-level, but obviously I don't know what I'm talking about.

Also, moving the volume sliders all the way to the top (on main or secondary mixer controls) actually makes the sound disappear. The loudest it gets is when the slider is right below the top of the range.

-- Otis