Re: via82cxxx_audio driver bug?

Adrian Cox
2001-08-13T15:19:24Z

Nicholas Knight wrote:
> I just sent email to the maintainer of the via82cxxx_audio driver
> regarding this bug, hopefully I'll hear back from him soon, but I'd also
> like to hear from anyone else who has used and/or hacked at this driver,
> and if they've seen XMMS or other audio applications with access to
> /dev/mixer have strange, temporarily lockups when not in root/realtime
> priority. I've yet to be able to test this with other audio applications
> besides XMMS.

Are you using 2.4.7 or 2.4.8? Those kernels have new code to talk to the
AC97 codec, which cures lockups on some boards.
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