The patch from Tjeerd Mulder that is already in 2.4.0-prerelease fixes a lot of issues with i810_audio, but it still does not seem to enable variable rates (non 48K rates). I am not sure if VRA works for everybody else with the current code, but I needed the patch below for VRA to work on my Dell Optiplex GX110. So the patch below specifically enables VRA during rate change requests (based on code from Jim Studt, posted to LKML on Dec 29). This is needed for things like Real Player to work , because the first thing RealPlayer does is to set the DAC rate to 44100Hz. Also, the patch already in 2.4.0.-prerelease introduced a bug in the driver that we get a divide-by-zero error if we just do "fd=open("/dev/dsp", O_WRONLY) ; close (fd);". This is also fixed below (the last hunk). --- linux/drivers/sound/i810_audio.c.old Sat Dec 30 13:23:14 2000 +++ linux/drivers/sound/i810_audio.c Mon Jan 1 13:24:36 2001 @@ -383,6 +383,7 @@ { struct dmabuf *dmabuf = &state->dmabuf; u32 dacp; + u16 extended_status; struct ac97_codec *codec=state->card->ac97_codec[0]; if(!(state->card->ac97_features&0x0001)) @@ -410,6 +411,10 @@ if(rate != i810_ac97_get(codec, AC97_PCM_FRONT_DAC_RATE)) { + /* Reset variable rate mode */ + extended_status = i810_ac97_get(codec, AC97_EXTENDED_STATUS); i810_ac97_set(codec, AC97_POWER_CONTROL, dacp|0x0200); @@ -433,6 +438,7 @@ { struct dmabuf *dmabuf = &state->dmabuf; u32 dacp; + u16 extended_status; struct ac97_codec *codec=state->card->ac97_codec[0]; if(!(state->card->ac97_features&0x0001)) @@ -460,6 +466,10 @@ if(rate != i810_ac97_get(codec, AC97_PCM_LR_DAC_RATE)) { + /* Reset variable rate mode */ + extended_status = i810_ac97_get(codec, AC97_EXTENDED_STATUS); + if (!(extended_status&1)) + i810_ac97_set(codec, AC97_EXTENDED_STATUS, extended_status|1); /* Power down the ADC */ dacp=i810_ac97_get(codec, AC97_POWER_CONTROL); i810_ac97_set(codec, AC97_POWER_CONTROL, dacp|0x0100); @@ -770,7 +780,10 @@ swptr = dmabuf->swptr; spin_unlock_irqrestore(&state->card->lock, flags); - len = swptr % (dmabuf->dmasize/SG_LEN); + if (dmabuf->dmasize) + len = swptr % (dmabuf->dmasize/SG_LEN); + else + len = 0; memset(dmabuf->rawbuf + swptr, silence, len); - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/