From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: rct@frus.com (Bob Tracy) Subject: Re: [alsa-devel] [regression] 2.6.25-rc4 snd-es18xx broken on Alpha Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:34:21 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <20080311203421.BBEFDDBA2@gherkin.frus.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: "from Michael Cree at Mar 12, 2008 09:00:13 am" Sender: linux-alpha-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Michael Cree Cc: Bob Tracy , Rene Herman , Takashi Iwai , ALSA devel , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ivan Kokshaysky , linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org, Krzysztof Helt List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org Michael Cree wrote: > Yes, the ESS1888 driver failed to work on Alpha about the 2.6.14 to > 2.6.16 kernel. It came right with alsa release 1.0.13 (IIRC) and I > have been running the ESS1888 driver on an Alpha XP1000 without > problems for about a year. Nod. I take it things were working for you at least as recently as 2.6.22, then. I can try that version and see if it works for me. My situation is that I can't swear I've tried anything involving ALSA on the Alpha since 2.6.16 until recently, so I'm not sure this is really a regression in my case. Because I threatened to do it :-), I built a 2.6.25-rc4+iommu_patch kernel with both the snd-es18xx and snd-sb8 modules available. As hoped (expected?), the snd-sb8 driver works fine. This would imply the problem is at least somewhat specific to the es18xx driver, and that the underlying ALSA infrastructure is reasonably healthy (notice that I intentionally avoided saying it was "sound" -- sorry, I never could pass on low-hanging fruit). -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bob Tracy | "I was a beta tester for dirt. They never did rct@frus.com | get all the bugs out." - Steve McGrew on /. ------------------------------------------------------------------------