From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lee Revell Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 19:29:07 +0000 Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal Message-Id: <1136489348.31583.47.camel@mindpipe> List-Id: References: <20060103203732.GF5262@irc.pl> <9a8748490601031256x916bddav794fecdcf263fb55@mail.gmail.com> <20060103215654.GH3831@stusta.de> <20060103221314.GB23175@irc.pl> <20060103231009.GI3831@stusta.de> <20060104000344.GJ3831@stusta.de> <20060104010123.GK3831@stusta.de> <20060104113726.3bd7a649@mango.fruits.de> <20060104191750.798af1da@mango.fruits.de> <1136445063.24475.11.camel@mindpipe> <20060105200911.5aa4e705.froese@gmx.de> In-Reply-To: <20060105200911.5aa4e705.froese@gmx.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Edgar Toernig Cc: Florian Schmidt , Takashi Iwai , Adrian Bunk , Jesper Juhl , Olivier Galibert , Alistair John Strachan , Jan Engelhardt , Andi Kleen , perex@suse.cz, alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, James@superbug.demon.co.uk, sailer@ife.ee.ethz.ch, linux-sound@vger.kernel.org, zab@zabbo.net, kyle@parisc-linux.org, parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org, jgarzik@pobox.com, Thorsten Knabe , zwane@commfireservices.com, zaitcev@yahoo.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 20:09 +0100, Edgar Toernig wrote: > Lee Revell wrote: > > > > All of this was solved with the switch in ALSA 1.0.9 to use dmix by > > default. If it does not Just Work it's a bug and we need to hear about > > it. > > So then: xawtv4 (dvb-app) works with hw:0 but not with 1.0.9's dmix default. > It works with /dev/dsp1 (usb-speakers) but not with /dev/dsp0 (atiixp ac'97). > vdr's softdevice (another dvb-app) works with dmix-default but not with hw:0. > And that's my experience with most audio apps - you have to try all configur- > ations until you find one that works. Sure, maybe badly written apps but > there must be something wrong if so many developers have problems with > Alsa. I've even resigned to grok the config files :-( > > Ciao, ET. > Come on, this is LKML, you should know that "it doesn't work" is not a useful bug report. > And btw, with 2.6.15 the usb-speakers only produce noise most of the time. > Known regression, this is being worked on. It was known and posted to LKML before the 2.6.15 release, unfortunately 2.6.15 was released with this bug anyway. Lee