tag 279279 +pending thanks On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 10:24:57AM +0000, David Sterratt wrote: > On Tue, 2004-11-02 at 04:34, Horms wrote: > > 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. > > That would be great. At some point (2.6.9 I think) the patch will need > to change because of changes to the structure of quirks.c. I think the > patch in the kernel bugzilla should work for the later revisions of > quirks.c however.
Yes, I put the bugzilla patch into the 2.6.9 tree and your patch into 2.6.8. I think that covers all the bases for now, unless you want to delve into 2.4.27 land. -- Horms
