Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 14 Mar 2005 10:33:25 -0500 | | From | "John W. Linville" <> | | Subject | Re: OSS Audio borked between 2.6.6 and 2.6.10 |
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On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 03:59:06AM -0500, Greg Stark wrote:
> Well, I built a slew of kernels but found it on the first reboot. > > 2.6.7 doesn't work.
> > 2.6.7:
> > [sound/oss] remove bogus CIV_TO_LVI > > > > This patch removes a pair of bogus LVI assignments. The explanation in > > the comment is wrong because the value of PCIB tells the hardware that > > the DMA buffer can be processed even if LVI == CIV. > > > > Setting LVI to CIV + 1 causes overruns when with short writes > > (something that vmware is very fond of).
Pretty sure this is/was the problem. I found this to be causing a problem with Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory. The patch to reverse this change appears to have been merged into 2.6.11. I suggest you try that one. :-)
Good luck!
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