I get the following errors when playing audio.

loaded ALSA modules are 

 snd-ens1371            15172   1
 snd-ac97-codec         30960   0 [snd-ens1371]
 snd-rawmidi            18208   0 [snd-ens1371]

kernel 2.5.40 with PREEMPT
.config is attached.

Oct  2 15:03:02 ronja kernel: Debug: sleeping function called from illegal context at slab.c:1374
Oct  2 15:03:02 ronja kernel: d5b0bf4c c01148b6 c02d9940 c02db8a2 0000055e 000001d0 c012f7e1 c02db8a2 
Oct  2 15:03:02 ronja kernel:        0000055e d7ffa228 d5b08f24 d5b0a000 d6d67064 c012974e d6d67064 d5b08f24 
Oct  2 15:03:02 ronja kernel:        d5b6ece4 00000000 00000400 00000001 d6dbf660 c010b833 00000080 000001d0 
Oct  2 15:03:02 ronja kernel: Call Trace:
Oct  2 15:03:02 ronja kernel:  [<c01148b6>]__might_sleep+0x56/0x60
Oct  2 15:03:02 ronja kernel:  [<c012f7e1>]kmalloc+0x61/0x220
Oct  2 15:03:02 ronja kernel:  [<c012974e>]do_munmap+0x10e/0x120
Oct  2 15:03:02 ronja kernel:  [<c010b833>]sys_ioperm+0x83/0x120
Oct  2 15:03:02 ronja kernel:  [<c01071df>]syscall_call+0x7/0xb
Oct  2 15:03:02 ronja kernel: 
Oct  2 15:03:04 ronja kernel: MTRR: setting reg 3
Oct  2 15:03:06 ronja last message repeated 6 times
Oct  2 15:09:06 ronja kernel: Debug: sleeping function called from illegal context at /opt/home/benoit/src/kernel/linux-2.5.40/include/asm/semaphore.h:119
Oct  2 15:09:06 ronja kernel: d1659c3c c01148b6 c02d9940 c02d3a80 00000077 d76ca7ac c0267ed8 c02d3a80 
Oct  2 15:09:06 ronja kernel:        00000077 00000000 d6f0be00 d1658000 00000000 d76ca7ac d75186fc c0269d11 
Oct  2 15:09:06 ronja kernel:        d76ca7ac d1658000 00000000 c026a124 d76ca7ac 00004140 00000000 00000000 
Oct  2 15:09:06 ronja kernel: Call Trace:
Oct  2 15:09:06 ronja kernel:  [<c01148b6>]__might_sleep+0x56/0x60
Oct  2 15:09:06 ronja kernel:  [<c0267ed8>]snd_pcm_prepare+0x28/0x200
Oct  2 15:09:06 ronja kernel:  [<c0269d11>]snd_pcm_common_ioctl1+0x1d1/0x2a0
Oct  2 15:09:06 ronja kernel:  [<c026a124>]snd_pcm_playback_ioctl1+0x344/0x360
Oct  2 15:09:06 ronja kernel:  [<c025e59c>]snd_pcm_oss_get_formats+0x1c/0xd0
Oct  2 15:09:06 ronja kernel:  [<c0112cf4>]try_to_wake_up+0x144/0x150
Oct  2 15:09:06 ronja kernel:  [<c01135b1>]default_wake_function+0x21/0x40
Oct  2 15:09:06 ronja kernel:  [<c012f7e1>]kmalloc+0x61/0x220
Oct  2 15:09:06 ronja kernel:  [<c0112cf4>]try_to_wake_up+0x144/0x150
Oct  2 15:09:06 ronja kernel:  [<c01135b1>]default_wake_function+0x21/0x40
Oct  2 15:09:06 ronja kernel:  [<c012ad2e>]find_get_page+0x1e/0x40
Oct  2 15:09:06 ronja kernel:  [<c012ba02>]filemap_nopage+0xf2/0x250
Oct  2 15:09:06 ronja kernel:  [<c013a347>]page_add_rmap+0xb7/0x130
Oct  2 15:09:06 ronja kernel:  [<c0128338>]do_no_page+0x238/0x2b0
Oct  2 15:09:06 ronja kernel:  [<c012841e>]handle_mm_fault+0x6e/0x110
Oct  2 15:09:06 ronja kernel:  [<c026a4f7>]snd_pcm_kernel_playback_ioctl+0x27/0x30
Oct  2 15:09:06 ronja kernel:  [<c025dab5>]snd_pcm_oss_prepare+0x15/0x30
Oct  2 15:09:07 ronja kernel:  [<c025db08>]snd_pcm_oss_make_ready+0x38/0x50
Oct  2 15:09:07 ronja kernel:  [<c025e2ab>]snd_pcm_oss_sync+0x1b/0x1a0
Oct  2 15:09:07 ronja kernel:  [<c025f54b>]snd_pcm_oss_release+0x1b/0x90
Oct  2 15:09:07 ronja kernel:  [<c013dc6b>]__fput+0x2b/0xe0
Oct  2 15:09:07 ronja kernel:  [<c014cb02>]sys_select+0x492/0x4a0
Oct  2 15:09:07 ronja kernel:  [<c013c318>]filp_close+0x98/0xb0
Oct  2 15:09:07 ronja kernel:  [<c013c389>]sys_close+0x59/0x80
Oct  2 15:09:07 ronja kernel:  [<c01071df>]syscall_call+0x7/0xb
Oct  2 15:09:07 ronja kernel: 
Oct  2 15:09:40 ronja kernel: Debug: sleeping function called from illegal context at page_alloc.c:325
Oct  2 15:09:40 ronja kernel: d0ffbe98 c01148b6 c02d9940 c02db955 00000145 00000000 c0132633 c02db955 
Oct  2 15:09:40 ronja kernel:        00000145 00000000 00000000 000001d0 00000000 00000000 000001d0 d17f3218 
Oct  2 15:09:40 ronja kernel:        d6643ca8 c013287a 00000000 d0ffbf54 c014c293 d76ca7ac d6643c00 00000000 
Oct  2 15:09:40 ronja kernel: Call Trace:
Oct  2 15:09:40 ronja kernel:  [<c01148b6>]__might_sleep+0x56/0x60
Oct  2 15:09:40 ronja kernel:  [<c0132633>]__alloc_pages+0x23/0x240
Oct  2 15:09:40 ronja kernel:  [<c013287a>]__get_free_pages+0x2a/0x70
Oct  2 15:09:40 ronja kernel:  [<c014c293>]__pollwait+0x33/0xa0
Oct  2 15:09:40 ronja kernel:  [<c025fe96>]snd_pcm_oss_poll+0x46/0x100
Oct  2 15:09:40 ronja kernel:  [<c014c519>]do_select+0x139/0x260
Oct  2 15:09:40 ronja kernel:  [<c014c9a9>]sys_select+0x339/0x4a0
Oct  2 15:09:40 ronja kernel:  [<c014b449>]sys_fcntl64+0x89/0x90
Oct  2 15:09:40 ronja kernel:  [<c01071df>]syscall_call+0x7/0xb
Oct  2 15:09:40 ronja kernel: 
Oct  2 15:09:41 ronja kernel: Debug: sleeping function called from illegal context at page_alloc.c:325
Oct  2 15:09:41 ronja kernel: d0fc5e98 c01148b6 c02d9940 c02db955 00000145 00000000 c0132633 c02db955 
Oct  2 15:09:41 ronja kernel:        00000145 4216c008 00000000 000001d0 c0000000 00000000 000001d0 d17f3218 
Oct  2 15:09:41 ronja kernel:        d6643ca8 c013287a 00000000 d0fc5f54 c014c293 d76ca7ac d6643c00 00000000 
Oct  2 15:09:41 ronja kernel: Call Trace:
Oct  2 15:09:41 ronja kernel:  [<c01148b6>]__might_sleep+0x56/0x60
Oct  2 15:09:41 ronja kernel:  [<c0132633>]__alloc_pages+0x23/0x240
Oct  2 15:09:41 ronja kernel:  [<c013287a>]__get_free_pages+0x2a/0x70
Oct  2 15:09:41 ronja kernel:  [<c014c293>]__pollwait+0x33/0xa0
Oct  2 15:09:41 ronja kernel:  [<c025fe96>]snd_pcm_oss_poll+0x46/0x100
Oct  2 15:09:41 ronja kernel:  [<c014c519>]do_select+0x139/0x260
Oct  2 15:09:41 ronja kernel:  [<c014c9a9>]sys_select+0x339/0x4a0
Oct  2 15:09:41 ronja kernel:  [<c01071df>]syscall_call+0x7/0xb
Oct  2 15:09:41 ronja kernel: 

and so on until playing stops ...
a little bit annoying because the rhythm of the logfile being written is not
in sync with the music :-)

/B.
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