From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: rct@frus.com (Bob Tracy) Subject: Re: [regression] 2.6.25-rc4 snd-es18xx broken on Alpha Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:21:30 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <20080310162130.AFFD3DBA2@gherkin.frus.com> References: <47D55115.3010708@keyaccess.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <47D55115.3010708@keyaccess.nl> "from Rene Herman at Mar 10, 2008 04:17:41 pm" Sender: linux-alpha-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Rene Herman Cc: Michael Cree , Bob Tracy , Ivan Kokshaysky , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org, ALSA devel List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org Rene Herman wrote: > > Bob Tracy wrote: > > >> Supposedly with the ES1888, dma1 is for capture, dma2 is for playback. > >> dma2 == 5 is a 16-bit channel, yes? That could explain much... > > It is, but what would it explain? You're only having playback problems, right? dma2 is for playback, I'm having playback problems, dma2 == 5 is a a 16-bit channel, and 16-bit DMA is an issue with the es18xx driver (according to the comment near the top of the file). > Can it be forced to use dma2=0 (an 8-bit channel, and the usual capture > channel on es18xx)? However, that might not be the issue anyway: I'll try a few things like dma2 == dma1, and setting dma2 to an 8-bit channel, but I think the various configuration parameters are hard-wired on the Alpha (not PnP). > This sounds very suspiciously like a difference with playing through the > native ALSA interface and the OSS emulaion. Could you and/or Bob confirm > that sox is using the OSS emulation and not ALSA natively? > > I could very well imagine the ALSA OSS emulation being broken on Alpha. I > doubt any of teh developers has an Alpha. And if aplay works correctly this > seems very likely. I'll see if I can verify whether it's a native ALSA vs. OSS emulation issue. The local version of sox (Debian 12.7.9-1) contains a library dependency on libasound.so.2, and a "strings" on the binary yields "ALSA_0.9.0rc4" as well as several ALSA error message strings. However, output by default goes to /dev/dsp (major 14, minor 3), which is definitely OSS. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bob Tracy | "I was a beta tester for dirt. They never did rct@frus.com | get all the bugs out." - Steve McGrew on /. ------------------------------------------------------------------------