Re: AW: [Alsa-user] (Still) Problems with VIA8233

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

At 11 Mar 2003 12:47:59 -0600,
Edward Muller wrote:
> 
> comments inline...
> 
> On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 11:55, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > At 11 Mar 2003 11:40:56 -0600,
> > Edward Muller wrote:
> > > 
> > > I am currently running a cvs version of also from a week ago...Sometime
> > > after rc8 IIRC.
> > > 
> > > Here are my problems:
> > > 
> > > -OSS emulation is pretty much broken. This is my biggest problem since a
> > > lot of app (esound, the kde rpms I am using, realplayer, etc) use oss.
> >  
> > please elaborate (together with your system details) ?
> > "doesn't work" is not a magic word to explain everything.
> 
> Very true. Currently any apps using an oss device loop continuously over
> the first X seconds of the music. I really don't know how long X is,
> probably the first 1 to 3 seconds. I usually end up having to kill the
> software to get control back.

hmm, can you check whether interrupts are generated during playback?
how about the hardware configuration?
on some mono, PnP OS must be disabled.

also, let me know the chip and the chip version.
even VIA8233 and VIA8233A are fairly different.


> 
> > 
> > ALSA native apps are working?  if yes, then it must be a different
> > reason from Pattrick's problem.
> 
> Lemme re-state that. I was under the impression that the only native
> alsa application I had was XMMS w/xmms-alsa. I forgot about things like
> aplay and the like. aplay also exhibits the same problems as the oss
> apps above. But XMMS w/xmms-alsa work for the most part. See my previous
> comments about skipping/faltering ... And I really need to test w/o
> preempt.

i'm wondering why xmms-alsa works at all even though aplay doesn't
work.
please check the files under /proc/asound/card0/pcm0p/sub0 in both
cases.

anyway, update to version 0.9.1 at first, to keep things in sync.


ciao,

Takashi


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