Created attachment 85881 [details] kernel-config After /usr/bin/aumix -v 0 -w 0 -W 0 -p 0 the command modprobe -r snd_hda_intel hangs and cannot be killed. Bisection resulted in commit a0830dbd4e42b38aefdf3fb61ba5019a1a99ea85 Author: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Date: Tue Oct 16 13:05:59 2012 +0200 ALSA: Add a reference counter to card instance as the first bad commit. Reverting this commit in 3.7.0-rc4-00020-g0e4a43e fixes the problem. The machine is a thinkpad T510. CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU M 560 @ 2.67GHz AUDIO: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio
Is aumix accessing via ALSA API or OSS API? I tried to reproduce with amixer, but it works fine.
I do not know since I dont understand the sound system. But the following informations may help. aumix needs the module snd_pcm_oss to run. The snd* modules loaded are: snd_hda_codec_conexant 40366 1 snd_hda_intel 20675 0 snd_hda_codec 71325 2 snd_hda_codec_conexant,snd_hda_intel snd_pcm_oss 29043 0 snd_mixer_oss 12526 1 snd_pcm_oss snd_pcm 57725 3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel snd_page_alloc 6082 2 snd_pcm,snd_hda_intel snd_timer 15125 1 snd_pcm The content of /proc/asound/oss/sndstat is: Config options: 0 Installed drivers: Type 10: ALSA emulation Card config: HDA Intel MID at 0xf2620000 irq 44 ThinkPad Console Audio Control at EC reg 0x30, fw 6MHT43WW-1.18 Audio devices: 0: CONEXANT Analog (DUPLEX) Synth devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG Midi devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG Timers: 7: system timer Mixers: 0: Intel ID 2804 5: ThinkPad EC 6MHT43WW-1.18 This is a quote from /usr/share/doc/aumix/README.Debian: The old aumix-alsa package has been removed as there is no support for it anymore upstream. The aumix package works fine (although with limited channels) with the OSS compatibility layer for ALSA. To enable the compatibility layer, modprobe the snd_mixer_oss module (and/or put it in /etc/modules). Hopefully aumix will have full ALSA support in the future (it is on upstream's TODO list). If you're knowledgeable with ALSA stuff, feel free to contact aumix@packages.debian.org to help out. The Debian maintainer works closely with the aumix upstream maintainer. The aumix version is 2.9.1 amixer does not trigger the problem. I tried it with amixer set Master mute 0%
From the aumix homepage http://www.jpj.net/~trevor/aumix.html what aumix is This program adjusts an audio mixer from X11, the console, a terminal, the command line or a script. It uses the Open Sound System API and works on OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD, and Linux.
Created attachment 85931 [details] Fix card refcount unbalance Could you try this patch? This should fix the refcount unbalance in case where OSS emulation is used.
I applied the patch. The problem does not longer occur. Thanks Martin
Thanks for a quick test. The patch is merged now to sound git tree. I'm going to send a pull request tomorrow.
A patch referencing this bug report has been merged in Linux v3.7-rc5: commit 8bb4d9ce08b0a92ca174e41d92c180328f86173f Author: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Date: Thu Nov 8 14:36:18 2012 +0100 ALSA: Fix card refcount unbalance