Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: RFC: OSS driver removal, a slightly different approach

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>]

On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 07:29:09PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 12:20 +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > At Thu, 19 Jan 2006 20:34:02 -0500,
> > Dave Jones wrote:
> > > 
> > > On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 01:13:47AM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > >  > On Iau, 2006-01-19 at 17:51 -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> > >  > > The status is we need someone who has the hardware who can add printk's
> > >  > > to the driver to identify what triggers the hang.  It should not be
> > >  > > hard, the OSS driver reportedly works.
> > >  > > 
> > >  > > https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=328
> > >  > > 
> > >  > > The bug has been in FEEDBACK state for a long time.
> > >  > 
> > >  > 99.9% of users don't ever look in ALSA bugzilla. 
> > >  > 
> > >  > A dig shows
> > >  > 
> > >  > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=157371
> > >  > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=171221
> > > 
> > > Lee, if you can point me at a patch with debugging printk's I'm
> > > happy to throw that into the next Fedora test update for the
> > > users in the latter bug to test. (The first one seemed to go AWOL)
> > 
> > The bug for Latitude CSx should have been fixed by the following
> > commit:
> > 
> > 	commit 47530cf44cb5f3945ed04a5ae65d06bf423cd97b
> > 	Author: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
> > 	Date:   Wed Oct 19 16:03:10 2005 +0200
> > 
> > 	    [ALSA] nm256: reset workaround for Latitude CSx
> > 
> > This might not conver all Dell models.  In such a case, try
> > reset_workaround2=1.  See the section of nm256 in
> > ALSA-Configuration.txt for details.
> 
> OK I will update the ALSA bug report with this info.  IIRC at least one
> user already reported that the above commit does not fix the hangs.

The bug reporter reported this in the last comment of the bug (1.0.10rc3 
already included the mentioned fix).

> Lee

cu
Adrian

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