At Tue, 22 Jul 2003 18:22:56 +0200 (CEST), Djamel Ouerdane wrote: > > Hi, > > I know this one is a known bug, as far as I could see from ealier messages > but I thought I would repeat it once more: the driver snd-es1968 > handling the sound card ESS Maestro 2E that can be found in many laptops, > is buggy, you cannot record anything but garbage. > > Ok, nothing new here but nowadays, sound utilities, programs, etc, use > ALSA and JACk quite a lot due to high quality and low latency > requirements. And that's great news for the linux community that > open-source projects can compete with professional and often non-free > audio software. I just want to say here that since ALSA is getting close > to version 1.0, which means a non development release, it is now urgent to > get at least basic things to work, like simple sound capture (the OSS free > driver works fine but many applications now require ALSA and JACK). > > As an end user, I logically expect that such an ambitious project can deal > with such a wide spread sound card. I have therefore three options: > either I give up ALSA and all great stuff I could benefit from, > or I buy a new soundcard (but I don't have any money to spend in it), > or finally, you fix the bug, which is by far the best option :) I guess > I'm not the only frustrated user in the place, so please, remove the bug > ASAP.
i checked the code and found some bugs there. please try the latest alsa-driver/alsa-kernel _and_ alsa-lib cvs version. i'm not sure whether jack can run well on this hardware, although it shouldn't cause lock up any more. Takashi ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa00100003ave/direct;at.aspnet_072303_01/01 _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-devel
