Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: [2.6 patch] schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal

2005-07-29 Thread Jaroslav Kysela 
On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Thorsten Knabe wrote:

 On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, Adrian Bunk wrote:
 
  This patch schedules obsolete OSS drivers (with ALSA drivers that
  support the same hardware) for removal.
 
 Hello Adrian.
 
 I'm the maintainer of the OSS AD1816 sound driver. I'm aware of two 
 problems of the ALSA AD1816 driver, that do not show up with the OSS 
 driver:
 - According to my own experience and user reports audio is choppy with 
   some VoIP Softphones like gnophone at least when used with the ALSA 
   OSS emulation layer, whereas the OSS driver is crystal clear.
 - Users reported, that on some HP Kayak systems the on-board AD1816A was 
   not properly detected by the ALSA driver or was detected, but there 
   was no audio output. I'm not sure if the problem is still present in 
   the current ALSA driver, as I do not own such a system.
 
 Maybe the OSS driver should stay in the kernel, until those problems are 
 fixed in the ALSA driver.

The problem is that nobody reported us mentioned problems. We have no 
bug-report regarding the AD1816A driver. Perhaps, it would be a good idea 
to add a notice to the help file and/or driver that the ALSA driver should 
be tested and bugs reported to the ALSA bug-tracking-system.

Thanks,
Jaroslav

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Re: [2.6 patch] schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal

2005-07-28 Thread Jaroslav Kysela 
On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Alan Cox wrote:

 On Mer, 2005-07-27 at 16:43 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
  ISTR Alan saying there was some ALi hardware that either wasn't in ALSA, 
  or most likely didn't work in ALSA.  If Alan says I'm smoking crack, 
  then you all can ignore me :)
 
 The only big thing I know that still needed OSS (and may still do so) is
 the support for AC97 wired touchscreens and the like. Has that been
 ported to ALSA ?

We're working on this issue right now.

Jaroslav

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