From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Clemens Ladisch" Subject: Re: Any OSS changes from kernel 2.6.21 to 2.6.23? Something broke. Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2007 18:11:05 +0100 Message-ID: <1194023465.19772.1219244387@webmail.messagingengine.com> References: <472B4416.8060009@freescale.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com (out1.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) by alsa0.perex.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E75D24459 for ; Fri, 2 Nov 2007 18:11:07 +0100 (CET) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <472B4416.8060009@freescale.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org Errors-To: alsa-devel-bounces@alsa-project.org To: Timur Tabi , alsa-devel@alsa-project.org List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org Timur Tabi wrote: > I have a customer who says that mplayer (using OSS) does not work when he tries > a kernel based on 2.6.23-rc4, but it works when he uses a kernel based on > 2.6.21. Everything else is the same (including the version of alsa-lib), so I > presume something broke in the OSS emulation in the kernel. It could also be a change in the driver. And it would be nice to know what "does not work" actually means. > Is it possible to back-level the ALSA support in the kernel itself? The alsa-kernel tree is only compatible with the current development kernel. The alsa-driver package works with older kernels, but must be compiled seperately. > Can I just download ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/driver/alsa-driver-1.0.XX.tar.bz2 > and follow the instructions in the INSTALL file? Yes. > If you update the kernel, are you supposed to use the latest alsa-lib as well? No; the kernel and lib versions are more or less independent. HTH Clemens