Re: i810 audio, problems with both GPL and 4Front driver

Doug Ledford (dledford@redhat.com)
Fri, 30 Nov 2001 22:01:23 -0500


Nathan Bryant wrote:

>
> FYI,
>
> On my machine, the changes in
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=100651447318071&w=2 or
> 2.4.17-pre1 don't fix the KDE problems, as alleged. artsd still exits
> after consuming too much CPU. I've tried reducing fragment size to 512
> with no effect.
>
> If it makes any difference to the driver, the kernel is running with
> APIC's and ACPI enabled on a uniprocessor build (Wow, acronym soup. ;)
>
> for what it's worth, 4Front's binary driver (3.9.5, 3.9.6) has problems
> too on this machine. KDE works but there are audio pops/speedups/stops.
> (xmms, in particular, likes to stop for a while, then resume, sometimes
> after a speedup.)

Just because I've been hearing about this stuff forever and the powers
that be didn't take my i810_audio.c driver version 0.05 for some reason,
I've place my 0.05 i810_audio.c file on my web site for anyone
interested in testing it to see how it does.

http://people.redhat.com/dledford/i810_audio.c.gz

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Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com> http://people.redhat.com/dledford Please check my web site for aic7xxx updates/answers before e-mailing me about problems

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