modprobe snd-emu10k1 completely crashes the system

[jonnevers]

Hello,

I had an ISA sb awe64 card that, i guess, died over the weekend. With that card i was getting good sound no complaints. But it died or something, it stopped being detected (another story). So i replaced it with a PCI sb live! standard,

if I cat /proc/pci | grep audio i seee output that correctly identifies the card. BUT whenever i go to instantiate the drivers for it, the entire system crashes/hangs.

if i build it as a kernel module (2.6.0-test4-mm1)
or emerge alsa-driver (2.4.22_ac_rc1):
the system crashes when i modprobe snd-emu10k1

if i build support into the kernel (2.6.0-test4-mm1) the system crashes during kernel boot right after it identifies the card on the PCI bus.....

does any have any suggestions?

i'ves tried these combinations:
2.6.0-test4-mm1 with the alsa emu10k1 drivers built into the kernel and as modules

2.4.22_ac_rc1 with sound support built in and emering alsa-driver with emu10k1 specified

they all produce the same effect, total system failure.

thanks, Jon