Re: Possible Bug: drivers/sound/maestro.c

[Tom Sightler]

> I haven't done any sound stuff with 2.4 on my Dell Inspiron 5000e, but I
> have this problem (or a similar one, anyway -- sometimes the sound becomes
> distorted or comes only through one speaker) under both Linux 2.2 and
> Win2K. If it was just Linux, I'd assume it was a driver problem, but the
> fact that I'm getting very similar misbehavior from both Linux and Win2K

Just to add a note, my Dell Inspiron 5000e also exhibits this problem under
both Linux and W2K.  I've never heard it happen under Win98 but I spend very
little time actually running that OS (I occasionally boot it to troubleshoot
client issues that are still running on Win95/98) compared to the others so
that probably doesn't mean a lot.

I've also tried the ALSA drivers on this machine but have never has success
in even getting their Maestro driver to work on this machine.  I do have
ALSA drivers working on several desktop machines at home and have always had
good success with them, but they fail miserably for me on this laptop.  I
haven't tried the absolute latest version released earlier this week though,
maybe over the weekend.

> (I don't have Win98 or ME on the machine, so I can't test that) makes me
> really wonder...

It makes me wonder as well, maybe I'll try to force myself to use Win98 for
a while and see if I can force the problem to occur there as well.

Later,
Tom