Re: [2.6 patch] schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal

Lee Revell
2006-01-08T21:44:28Z

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