Re: Old hardware (was Re: [PATCH] Prevent trident driver from grabbing pcnet32 hardware)

Bob Copeland
2006-01-12T23:52:19Z

On 1/12/06, Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> wrote:
> I ask because the snd-nm256 driver is one that we know users have, but
> the ALSA driver has never worked (sound OK but the machine frequently
> locks up IIRC, see ALSA bug #305), and the device has been unavailable
> for years. Basically these users are screwed if we can't get a hardware
> sample, but I think that might mean someone has to give us a whole
> laptop.

I happen to have an old laptop with an nm256, that I would gladly part
with, but it doesn't boot because of a hardware problem: it will shut
itself off between 5 and 30 seconds of turning on. Last time I
checked it seemed to be a not-worth-fixing problem with a lot of VAIOs
of that generation. I doubt this is worth anything to anyone but if
it is, let me know.

-Bob