Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 29 Jul 2005 08:52:45 +0200 (CEST) | From | Jaroslav Kysela <> | Subject | Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: [2.6 patch] schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal |
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On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Thorsten Knabe wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > This patch schedules obsolete OSS drivers (with ALSA drivers that > > support the same hardware) for removal. > > Hello Adrian. > > I'm the maintainer of the OSS AD1816 sound driver. I'm aware of two > problems of the ALSA AD1816 driver, that do not show up with the OSS > driver: > - According to my own experience and user reports audio is choppy with > some VoIP Softphones like gnophone at least when used with the ALSA > OSS emulation layer, whereas the OSS driver is crystal clear. > - Users reported, that on some HP Kayak systems the on-board AD1816A was > not properly detected by the ALSA driver or was detected, but there > was no audio output. I'm not sure if the problem is still present in > the current ALSA driver, as I do not own such a system. > > Maybe the OSS driver should stay in the kernel, until those problems are > fixed in the ALSA driver.
The problem is that nobody reported us mentioned problems. We have no bug-report regarding the AD1816A driver. Perhaps, it would be a good idea to add a notice to the help file and/or driver that the ALSA driver should be tested and bugs reported to the ALSA bug-tracking-system.
Thanks, Jaroslav
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