From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262848AbTL0MWQ (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Dec 2003 07:22:16 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263751AbTL0MWQ (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Dec 2003 07:22:16 -0500 Received: from wblv-224-192.telkomadsl.co.za ([165.165.224.192]:24464 "EHLO gateway.lan") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262848AbTL0MWO (ORCPT ); Sat, 27 Dec 2003 07:22:14 -0500 Subject: Re: OSS sound emulation broken between 2.6.0-test2 and test3 From: Martin Schlemmer Reply-To: azarah@nosferatu.za.org To: Edward Tandi Cc: "Martin J. Bligh" , perex@suse.cz, alsa-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Linux Kernel Mailing Lists , Rob Love , Andrew Morton , Stan Bubrouski In-Reply-To: <1072525450.3794.8.camel@wires.home.biz> References: <1080000.1072475704@[10.10.2.4]> <1072479167.21020.59.camel@nosferatu.lan> <1480000.1072479655@[10.10.2.4]> <1072480660.21020.64.camel@nosferatu.lan> <1640000.1072481061@[10.10.2.4]> <1072482611.21020.71.camel@nosferatu.lan> <2060000.1072483186@[10.10.2.4]> <1072500516.12203.2.camel@duergar> <8240000.1072511437@[10.10.2.4]> <1072523478.12308.52.camel@nosferatu.lan> <1072525450.3794.8.camel@wires.home.biz> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-5tSXchTVyfHvHhDLchKP" Message-Id: <1072527874.12308.100.camel@nosferatu.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2003 14:24:34 +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --=-5tSXchTVyfHvHhDLchKP Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 2003-12-27 at 13:44, Edward Tandi wrote: > On Sat, 2003-12-27 at 11:11, Martin Schlemmer wrote: > > On Sat, 2003-12-27 at 09:50, Martin J. Bligh wrote: > > > Something appears to have broken OSS sound emulation between=20 > > > test2 and test3. Best I can tell (despite the appearance of the BK lo= gs),=20 > > > that included ALSA updates 0.9.5 and 0.9.6. Hopefully someone who > > > understands the sound architecture better than I can fix this? > > >=20 > >=20 > > I wont say I understand it, but a quick look seems the major change is > > the addition of the 'whole-frag' and 'no-silence' opts. You might try > > the following to revert what 'no-silence' change at least does: > >=20 > > -- > > # echo 'xmms 0 0 no-silence' > /proc/asound/card0/pcm0p/oss > > # echo 'xmms 0 0 whole-frag' > /proc/asound/card0/pcm0p/oss > > -- >=20 > Thanks, that fixes it for me. I too have been seeing terrible problems > with XMMS since the early 2.6 pre- kernels. >=20 > Because it only happens in XMMS I thought it was one of those > application bugs brought out by scheduler changes. I now use Zinf BTW > -It's better for large music collections (although not as stable or > flash). >=20 Can you check which one actually fixes it ? Thanks, --=20 Martin Schlemmer --=-5tSXchTVyfHvHhDLchKP Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA/7XoCqburzKaJYLYRAkxZAJ4oUHaN3YmHbIHC8eegpBAZsgfiowCeLajb cs5msk81q2CdNk8s2/gtktQ= =zpC5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-5tSXchTVyfHvHhDLchKP--