From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261933AbVG1Shd (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jul 2005 14:37:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261945AbVG1Se4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jul 2005 14:34:56 -0400 Received: from viper.oldcity.dca.net ([216.158.38.4]:27277 "HELO viper.oldcity.dca.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261939AbVG1Sda (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jul 2005 14:33:30 -0400 Subject: Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: [2.6 patch] schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal From: Lee Revell To: Thorsten Knabe Cc: Adrian Bunk , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, linux-sound@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: <20050726150837.GT3160@stusta.de> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 14:33:26 -0400 Message-Id: <1122575607.2772.2.camel@mindpipe> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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