Subject: port-i386/552: speaker driver panics kernel
To: None <gnats-admin@sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu>
From: James [Greywolf] Graham <greywolf@autodesk.com>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 11/03/1994 12:20:05
>Number: 552
>Category: port-i386
>Synopsis: speaker driver panics kernel
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: gnats-admin (GNATS administrator)
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Thu Nov 3 12:20:03 1994
>Originator: James Graham (greywolf@autodesk.com)
>Organization:
Autodesk, Inc.
>Release: 1.0
>Environment:
> Hardware: Compaq Deskpro/66M (486DX), 2x(fd), IDE/ESDI/ST506, AHA1540CF
System: NetBSD deep_thought 1.0 NetBSD 1.0 (DEEP_THOUGHT) #2: Fri Oct 28 15:37:42 PDT 1994 greywolf@deep_thought:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/DEEP_THOUGHT i386
>Description:
If you cat to /dev/speaker and start feeding it control sequences
to play notes, eventually it crashes with the message:
Fatal integer overflow in supervisor mode
and proceeds to dump core. Never mind that savecore can't decode
the core which is dumped (that's another bug)
>How-To-Repeat:
cat > /dev/speaker
>c>c>c>c>c>c>c>c>cdefgab>c
>Fix:
unknown.
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: