I can say that I'm using a ymfpci with no troubles with ALSA 0.9.0rc6. I can play and capture with no problems.
Configuration: KT333(a) + VT8235. The PCI sound card is attached to INT B# pin @ ACPI IRQ 17. Gentoo Linux 1.4_rc2; vanilla 2.4.20 kernel. Erratic sound can be caused by bad interrupt priority, bad sharing, and/or some buggy PCI bridges. The VT8233 and KT266(a) have reportedly had "broken" PCI. This isn't really true, but bus parking was not implemented. While this isn't included in PCI v2.1, Intel has been using bus parking for quite some time, so this can cause problems with some sound chipsets that rely upon bus parking. In the BIOS, I have PCI delayed transaction, and some oher basic things set to sensible settings. The sound card is not shared with any interrupt pigs (VGA, SCSI, IDE, etc). I haven't tried (don't own) any of the chips you have used, but I have successfully tested emu10k1 based cards (Creative Live 5.1) and YMF744/754 (Hoontech). Neither had any problems, and the Creative card was tested on an AMD-760+VT82C686B mainboard. Sound was clear and clean in both cases, for both capture and playback. I have also used OSS emulation with no problems on both cards. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Howard Philips" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 15:00 Subject: [Alsa-user] The status of the ALSA drivers > Anyone know when ALSA is expected to reach a more > or less stable state? I have tried ALSA on three > different PCs, each with a different sound board > (es18xx, Ensoniq 1371 and CMI 8378,) and the results > have been rather disappointing, in that the sound > behaves far more erratically with the ALSA drivers > than with the ones in the kernel sources. > > Things are even worse with the 0.9 release than > with the 0.5 one to boot. Also, any previous queries > to this list have only been responded by people > expressing similar frustation, rather than anybody > giving a solution, or even a hint of a solution, which > is of course not encouraging :-( > > I guess I'll be giving up on the ALSA drivers for > the time being. > > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. > http://mailplus.yahoo.com > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.NET email is sponsored by: > SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! > http://www.vasoftware.com > _______________________________________________ > Alsa-user mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
