Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: [2.6 patch] schedule obsolete OSS drivers for

Lee Revell
2005-07-28T18:33:26Z

On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 17:04 +0200, Thorsten Knabe wrote:
> I'm the maintainer of the OSS AD1816 sound driver. I'm aware of two
> problems of the ALSA AD1816 driver, that do not show up with the OSS
> driver:
> - According to my own experience and user reports audio is choppy with
> some VoIP Softphones like gnophone at least when used with the ALSA OSS
> emulation layer, whereas the OSS driver is crystal clear.
> - Users reported, that on some HP Kayak systems the on-board AD1816A
> was not properly detected by the ALSA driver or was detected, but
> there was no audio output. I'm not sure if the problem is still present in
> the current ALSA driver, as I do not own such a system.

What are the bug id #s in the ALSA BTS? If it's not in the bug tracker
it's never going to get fixed.

Lee