Messages in this thread | | | From | "Ulrich Windl" <> | Date | Wed, 6 Mar 1996 11:16:53 +0100 | Subject | Re: Bug in /dev/sequencer (1.3.70) |
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On 5 Mar 96 at 21:13, bs_s641@kingston.ac.uk wrote:
> Hi Dear Kernel Hackers, > > Another small bug found... > > After discovering for myself that .au files can be easily cat > /dev/audio > I thought "lets try the same with midi files > /dev/sequencer". The idea > as such is quite silly, I admit, but here is what happened: > > cat bridalm.mid > /dev/sequencer > > Then looked in /var/log/messages: > > Mar 5 20:56:20 saturn kernel: general protection: 0000 > Mar 5 20:56:20 saturn kernel: CPU: 0 [...] > Mar 5 20:58:42 saturn kernel: Sequencer busy > Mar 5 20:59:20 saturn last message repeated 2 times > Mar 5 20:59:25 saturn kernel: Sequencer busy > > And after this I tried to use playmidi and play some .mid files in a "proper" way. Playmidi hang in a non-interruptible sleep > ("D" flag shown by top or ps -aux). Look, it is still running: (unnecessary lines deleted) > > USER PID %CPU %MEM SIZE RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND > tigran 116 0.0 2.1 912 324 ? D 20:56 0:00 playmidi -f /usr/loca > > Interesting, huh?
With "cd /usr/src/linux && make scripts/ksymoops; scripts/ksymoops System.map < /var/adm/messages" this would be even more interesting.
> > Regards, > Tigran (bs_s641@ceres.king.ac.uk)
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