Re: OSS/ALSA issue

[Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>]

On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 23:32 +0200, Alien wrote:
> Op dinsdag 6 juni 2006 22:37, schreef Lee Revell:
> > On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 21:57 +0200, Alien wrote:
> > > as a result, the sound was played, all sound looped (also flash), and
> > > a few
> > > hours later, my /var/log/kernel/warnings was > 600MB (kernel
> > > warnings).
> > >
> > >
> > > Now, we all know that:
> > >
> > > 1. ALSA has hardware mixing if the chipset/driver supports it (i know
> > > mine does).
> > >
> > > 2. OSS does not do any multiple sounds
> >
> > It should work.  ALSA's OSS emulation supports mixing if the card has
> > hardware mixing.  It is only in the case of software mixing that OSS
> > emulation cannot support multiple open.
> >
> > Sounds like a driver bug.  What do the kernel warnings say?
> >
> > Lee
> 
> forgot attachments

It's a driver bug, please file a bug report if you can reproduce it with
the latest ALSA sources from the Hg repository.

Lee