buggy ESS maestro 2E driver

buggy ESS maestro 2E driver

[Djamel Ouerdane]

Hi,

I know this one is a known bug, as far as I could see from ealier messages
but I thought I would repeat it once more: the driver snd-es1968
handling the sound card ESS Maestro 2E that can be found in many laptops,
is buggy, you cannot record anything but garbage.

Ok, nothing new here but nowadays, sound utilities, programs, etc, use
ALSA and JACk quite a lot due to high quality and low latency
requirements. And that's great news for the linux community that
open-source projects can compete with professional and often non-free 
audio software. I just want to say here that since ALSA is getting close 
to version 1.0, which means a non development release, it is now urgent to 
get at least basic things to work, like simple sound capture (the OSS free 
driver works fine but many applications now require ALSA and JACK).

As an end user, I logically expect that such an ambitious project can deal
with such a wide spread sound card. I have therefore three options:
either I give up ALSA and all great stuff I could benefit from, 
or I buy a new soundcard (but I don't have any money to spend in it),
or finally, you fix the bug, which is by far the best option :) I guess 
I'm not the only frustrated user in the place, so please, remove the bug 
ASAP.

Thanks.
Djam



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Re: buggy ESS maestro 2E driver

[Takashi Iwai]

At Tue, 22 Jul 2003 18:22:56 +0200 (CEST),
Djamel Ouerdane wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I know this one is a known bug, as far as I could see from ealier messages
> but I thought I would repeat it once more: the driver snd-es1968
> handling the sound card ESS Maestro 2E that can be found in many laptops,
> is buggy, you cannot record anything but garbage.
> 
> Ok, nothing new here but nowadays, sound utilities, programs, etc, use
> ALSA and JACk quite a lot due to high quality and low latency
> requirements. And that's great news for the linux community that
> open-source projects can compete with professional and often non-free 
> audio software. I just want to say here that since ALSA is getting close 
> to version 1.0, which means a non development release, it is now urgent to 
> get at least basic things to work, like simple sound capture (the OSS free 
> driver works fine but many applications now require ALSA and JACK).
> 
> As an end user, I logically expect that such an ambitious project can deal
> with such a wide spread sound card. I have therefore three options:
> either I give up ALSA and all great stuff I could benefit from, 
> or I buy a new soundcard (but I don't have any money to spend in it),
> or finally, you fix the bug, which is by far the best option :) I guess 
> I'm not the only frustrated user in the place, so please, remove the bug 
> ASAP.

i checked the code and found some bugs there.
please try the latest alsa-driver/alsa-kernel _and_ alsa-lib cvs
version.

i'm not sure whether jack can run well on this hardware, although it
shouldn't cause lock up any more.


Takashi


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