Re: Status of ALi5451(trident)?

[Joern Nettingsmeier <nettings@folkwang-hochschule.de>]

check on www.alsa-project.org, and ask on the alsa-user list. iirc, it's
supported.

Neale Banks wrote:
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> What is the status (e.g. supposedly working, supported and maintained?)
> of the Trident driver with the Ali5451 chipset (both regular audio and
> MIDI synth)?
> 
> Issues I have on the Toshiba Satellite 1800[1] include:
> 
> 1) not working[2] with 2.2.21
> 2) MIDI not working with 2.2.21 or 2.4.18
> 3) MIDI code appears to be removed in 2.4.17 source (is this a sign?)
> 4) Lack of findable documentation on what's supposed to work and how (yes,
> I'm prepared to collate something for linux/Documentation/sound/)
> 
> Thanks,
> Neale.
> 
> [1] The Toshi 1800's lspci -v output includes:
> 
> 00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M5451 PCI South Bridge Audio (rev 01)
>         Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems: Unknown device 0001
>         Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
>         I/O ports at ed00
>         Memory at f7efe000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
>         Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2
> 
> [2] OK, "not working" isn't really a proper report.  I get this logged
> when something tries to open the audio:
> 
> kernel: trident: drain_dac, dma timeout?
> 
> What else should I be reporting about this?
> 
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