On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 10:28:51PM +0000, David Sterratt wrote: > Package: kernel-image-2.6.8-k7 > Version 2.6.8-1 > > Using the ALSA drivers, my VIA 8233A card repeats sounds, making sound > unusable. This can be remedied by the acpi=off and noapic options, but > having these options switched off doesn't seem to let me use my nvidia > graphics card. A better solution is to backport a patch to the kernel > that hasn't yet made it to the sources: > > http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3175 > > I'm attaching a diff against the Debian package that works for me. > > Hope this is the right procedure -- I've not reported a kernel bug > before.
Thanks, bug reports with a fix are most excellent indeed. The patch seems pretty harmless so I will go ahead and put it into SVN. It should appear in the next release, whenever that is. -- Horms
