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From: Tyson Whitehead <twhitehe@uwo.ca>
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To: Bob Tracy <rct@frus.com>
Subject: Re: [alsa-devel] [regression] 2.6.25-rc4 snd-es18xx broken on Alpha
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 21:18:19 -0400
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       Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@wp.pl>
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On Fri March 14 2008, Bob Tracy wrote:
> A quick followup...  Since we're in agreement this isn't a regression,
> I've updated my working source tree to 2.6.25-rc5.  Built the new
> kernel with the patch to omit es1888_init(), and as near as I can tell,
> that function does nothing useful on the Miata platform.  At the very
> least, not having it makes no difference to any of the ALSA drivers I've
> tried: snd-sb8 still works great, and snd-es18xx is still broken in the
> same way originally described at the beginning of this long thread.
>
> I'll try a build with the old OSS "sb" driver, and if that works ok, we
> may be able to do away with es1888_init() on the Miata.  Tyson -- I
> think you have a Miata if I'm remembering correctly: can you confirm
> these observations?

I actually ran into some problems with my Alpha, and I haven't managed to g=
et=20
get it full operational again yet.  I replaced the CPU fan, installed the n=
ew=20
aboot, and left it trying to recover the filesystems.  It was an unhappy=20
story all around -- damn that CMD646 chipset, I was under the impression th=
at=20
driver had acquired some recent fixups.  Anyway, if this succeeds, I'll try=
=20
and compile up a new kernel with the patch when I get a chance.

With regard to the sound driver, the es18xx does endless looping on the fir=
st=20
second or so of sound on my box (a PWS500au) unless I apply my patch, which=
=20
just enables the alternative interupt detection code in the driver.  Even=20
then, though, I believe it still only works in 8bit mode.

The sb8 driver also works for me.  For this reason, I basically decided to=
=20
forget about my es18xx patch.  It doesn't get me anything the sb8 driver=20
doesn't give me, and it forces me to keep compiling my own kernels.

Cheers!  -Tyson

PS:  The Debian 2.6.24 kernel actually panicked on me (instead of infinitel=
y=20
looping on the first second of sound) when I tried the stock es18xx driver.

=2D-=20
 Tyson Whitehead  (-twhitehe at uwo.ca -- MC-)
 Computer Engineer                          Dept. of Applied Mathematics,
 Graduate Student- Applied Mathematics      University of Western Ontario,
 GnuPG Key ID# 0xF7666BFF                   London, Ontario, Canada

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