> >>I guess you could say its stable, but it sure doesn't seem very useable > >>to me. I am quite good at getting things to work, even when they don't > >>want to, but nothing I do can make ALSA functional so just how useable > >>is that? > >> > >That doesn't necessarily mean that the ALSA source is to blame. There > >are plenty of other people who have managed to get it work very nicely > >(in many cases, much better than OSS could provide). > > > Then I find it very interesting that the best answer so far has been to > downgrade to 0.9.0rc6 and use the 2.4.x kernel tree. In fact I have > seen no other responce to myself or anyone else that has had problems > with this driver. In other lists I recieved some ideas, like compiling > into the kernel instead of a module, that also did not work for me. > Basically it appears that if you have a via 8233/A you are buggered > unless those that know how to make it work are for some reason remaining > utterly silent while the rest of us struggle and tell each other it > can't be done or if you are very lucky it might work for a little while > for some magic reason you will never figure out. > > The fact that it doesn't work is not upsetting. The fact that it is > becomming the new Linux standard and still doesn't work is.
Hi all, I had no expectations of ever getting the on-board sound to work under linux when I first bought my VIA motherboard with 8233A sound card. The only scenario where it works for me is with a 2.4.22 kernel and ALSA 0.9.0rc6. I was quite surprised when it did. However - and this is the most important thing for me; the fact that it works at all is a huge victory - because 5 years ago it didn't. Five years ago when I started using Linux I had to pay for my sound drivers. Whether ALSA works for you or not, tha fact remains that *some people somewhere* have gotten a lot of use out of the project, and that those people might not have been using Linux had the ALSA project not existed. Maybe the important thing is not to expect that the ALSA drivers work perfectly for everyone, and not to expect that the mailing list can solve every problem. If you were actually paying for the drivers it might be a different story. Just my 2c, Renai ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: www-mail.usyd.edu.au ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
