Re: Tyan S2464 (K7 SMP) + EMU10K1 hardlocks

Andre Bonin (kernel@bonin.ca)
Fri, 07 Jun 2002 15:16:24 -0400


Alan Cox wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-06-07 at 18:44, Andre Bonin wrote:
>
>>Creative Labs warns that it's sblive series of cards aren't compatible
>>with SMP systems. Though i've had the S2460 motherboard and the only
>>trouble i have had was that EAX didn't work properly. A friend of mine
>>has an sblive with a dual celeron and he also has had this problem of
>>deadlocks with the SBLive. The audigy however is fully compatible.
>
>
> On Linux at least I've never had a problem with the SB Live since the
> SMP bugs in earlier 2.4 trees got fixed (and they were kernel bugs). I
> can well believe the SB emulation magic doesn't work with old games in
> SMP mode but we don't drive it in any emulation mode nor need to
>

It may be that there software, livewear, is buggy on SMP systems. Again
it's cryptic, they do not state if it is the board or only the driver.

Like i said, i've been running windowsXP/linux2.5.20 on a dual athlon
motherboard (Tyan S2460 before it busted, now i have an Asus A7M-266)
and both worked fine. My friend's dual celeron didn't take the sblive
too nicley.

It could also be a power supply issue. Maby the sound card is the drop
that spills the glass.

I found

http://www.americas.creative.com/support/kbase/article.asp?ID=473&Centric=108

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