From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 12:02:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 12:02:22 -0500 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:56334 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 12:02:19 -0500 Message-ID: <3DDBC1B5.9010409@pobox.com> Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 12:09:09 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021018 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Josh Myer CC: Jacob Kroon , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: OSS VIA82cxxx sound driver problem. References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Josh Myer wrote: > Give 2.5.x a shot. In some versions there's a buglet, which was hopefully > fixed (I kludged a patch, then the maintainer sent a proper one, and I > haven't had time to try it out). > > I saw similar problems under 2.4 (it almost seems like the chipset is > expecting aligned input; lots of errors after closing the device at the > end of a song), but they went away when switching to 2.5.44. > > Basically, the OSS driver for this chipset is hopelessly bad (no offense > Jeff!), but ALSA one is pretty well-done and handles the quirks of the > device. No offense taken. I always encourage honesty in bug reports, even if that means I or my drivers get blown to pieces ;-) I've had trouble finding test hardware I can play with for debugging, and haven't had time to review ALSA's driver in depth to evaluate the differences. Patches are certainly welcome ;-) [I need to attack the driver anyway, because I need to add VT8233 support] Jeff