At Sat, 24 Oct 2009 17:47:33 +0200, Krzysztof Helt wrote: > > From: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@xxxxx> > > The OSS driver for Ensoniq SoundScape cards is broken after conversion > to mutexes and a new ALSA snd-sscape driver handles all devices handled > by the OSS one. > > The ALSA driver was tested with these cards: > Spea V7 MediaFX > Ensoniq Soundscape Elite > Ensoniq Soundscape VIVO (this card is not handled by the OSS driver) > > Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@xxxxx> If OSS driver is broken, no worth to keep it indeed. I applied the patch now. Thanks. > --- > > Theodore Allen confirmed that that the new driver works for his > Ensoniq Soundscape Elite card (both MIDI and PCM): > > "I decided to upgrade to 2.6.28.10 from 2.6.28. > I also put the firmware in the /lib/firmware directory. > > Now the MIDI seems to work on most files. There are > a few that sound odd, but perhaps it's the midi map. > I have no idea why the driver allowed the sscape_ctl > program to load the firmware earlier, but it doesn't now. > Was there an ALSA change between 2.6.28 and 2.6.28.10? > > Less happily, the sound seems now to have a very faint > "zzzt" kind of "click" just before playing, which I think > it didn't with 2.6.28. I'll verify that after I > reboot into the old kernel." > > I will investigate the PCM issue after he confirms that it is a regression. > > This allows closing the ALSA bug #2234. Great. Thanks for your work! Takashi _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
