On Tuesday 20 January 2004 00:47, Noah Roberts wrote: >Matthew Geddes wrote: >>On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 15:35, Noah Roberts wrote: >>>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.
I have an 8233, its all compiled in, and it works. Not well mind you, but I hear clear, undistorted sound when I hear it. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.22% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. ------------------------------------------------------- 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
