Alsa probs?

Alastair Porter alastair at linuxexperience.com
Sun Oct 5 10:19:31 UTC 2003


On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 22:58, Andy Green wrote:
> That actually seems to work for me if I set 
> /proc/sys/kernel/exec-shield to 1 or 0, whereas alsamixer is only 
> happy at 0 as you say.
$ cat /proc/sys/kernel/exec-shield
1
$ xmms
Segmentation fault

No luck for me
> Thanks again for the tip.  Should I bug this do you think, or is Exec 
> Shield doing its job and the problem is in alsamixer?
Ive heard that its really a problem in alsamixer and they should fix it,
because turning it off does weird things to emacs ;-)

Alastair
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