Re: Patch to get ali5451 to work on the Sharp MM10

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

At Sun, 18 May 2003 06:53:57 -0400,
John Paul Lorenti wrote:
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> I have a Sharp MM10 laptop and it freezes when I try to load the ali5451 
> driver. After no solutions were found on alsa-user, I spent some time 
> hacking the driver, and found that commenting out the spdif support 
> stopped the freezing without losing any functionality. The laptop has no 
> jacks to take advantage of spdif. Attached is a quick and dirty patch 
> against  alsa-driver-0.9.3a/alsa-kernel/pci/ali5451/ali5451.c from 
> alsa-driver-0.9.3a.tar.bz2 which makes the driver run perfectly for me. 
> Maybe one of the developers can clean it up and make some load time 
> option out of it.

thanks, i added a new module option "spdif" for enabling/disabling the
spdif support on this chip.  as default, it's disabled.

please give a try cvs version.


ciao,

Takashi


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