Re: OSS VIA82cxxx sound driver problem.

[Jeff Garzik]

Josh Myer wrote:

> Give 2.5.x a shot. In some versions there's a buglet, which was hopefully
> fixed (I kludged a patch, then the maintainer sent a proper one, and I
> haven't had time to try it out).
>
> I saw similar problems under 2.4 (it almost seems like the chipset is
> expecting aligned input; lots of errors after closing the device at the
> end of a song), but they went away when switching to 2.5.44.
>
> Basically, the OSS driver for this chipset is hopelessly bad (no offense
> Jeff!), but ALSA one is pretty well-done and handles the quirks of the
> device.

No offense taken.  I always encourage honesty in bug reports, even if 
that means I or my drivers get blown to pieces ;-)

I've had trouble finding test hardware I can play with for debugging, 
and haven't had time to review ALSA's driver in depth to evaluate the 
differences.  Patches are certainly welcome ;-)

[I need to attack the driver anyway, because I need to add VT8233 support]

	Jeff