*BUMP*

Anyone get a chance to look at this any closer?

Can anyone else confirm that it happens on their equipment when they use the Voladj kernel?

This bug reminds me of the old days on the Commodore 64. The C-64 had a set of registers for controlling its SID (sound interface device) chip.

To initialize the chip, you were supposed to fill those registers with zero bytes. But some programmers took this literally, and did exactly that, in sequence. But they forgot to mute the volume first. So there were many programs/games which would "pop" at startup every time you ran them. As the bytes got written to the registers, you'd get random bits of noise as the chip got told to do strange and random things for a millisecond or so.

A properly-written program would turn the volume all the way down first, reset the registers (except the volume register), then turn the volume back up again.

Is it possible something similar is happening in this kernel?

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Tony Fabris