From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lee Revell Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2006 21:44:28 +0000 Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal Message-Id: <1136756669.2997.2.camel@mindpipe> List-Id: References: <20060103231009.GI3831@stusta.de> <20060104000344.GJ3831@stusta.de> <20060104010123.GK3831@stusta.de> <20060104113726.3bd7a649@mango.fruits.de> <1136445395.24475.17.camel@mindpipe> <20060105124317.2d12a85c@mango.fruits.de> <1136483330.31583.5.camel@mindpipe> <20060108210756.GD1686@vianova.fi> In-Reply-To: <20060108210756.GD1686@vianova.fi> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: vherva@vianova.fi Cc: Florian Schmidt , Tomasz =?ISO-8859-1?Q?K=B3oczko?= , Adrian Bunk , Jesper Juhl , Takashi Iwai , 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, jgarzik@pobox.com, Thorsten Knabe , zwane@commfireservices.com, zaitcev@yahoo.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 2006-01-08 at 23:07 +0200, Ville Herva wrote: > On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 12:48:49PM -0500, you [Lee Revell] wrote: > > On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 12:43 +0100, Florian Schmidt wrote: > > > BTW: Don't expect people to always write bug reports. We all know, > > > people are lazy. More often than not, they simply give up and say > > > "linux sucks" to their friends. Or if they can differentiate a little > > > more, they'll say "ALSA sucks" ;) [<- smiley, indicates humor]. > > > Especially those who use closed source apps ;) > > > > Of course I don't expect every end user with a problem to file a bug > > report (although Mantis makes it much easier than Bugzilla) but I sure > > as hell expect people who complain about ALSA on LKML to. > > > > Unless we get some useful bug reports out of it this thread is much ado > > about nothing. Come on people, put up or shut up. > > > > https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/main_page.php > > I would love to make a useful bug report of dmix not working with M-Audio > Revolution 5.1 (it stutters so badly that it's unusable), but after hours of > twiddling with asoundrc I still can't figure out if I have it set up > correctly. Also, I can't get any sound out of headphone output. To me this > is a sign that perhaps the ALSA config scheme is a bit too complex, although > more probably, it's just me being too stupid to use it. No it's a sign that the Revolution 5.1 is not well supported yet. It was not supported at all until a few weeks ago. Lee