Hi, Well, that assumption is easy to make, and at least on the video driver side it has been a good rule of thumb. And then of course try to buy really popular hardware (here I failed). I can try reporting this to alsa, but fixing it by myself might be too much asked :). One "workaround" would be to simply buy some other hardware. Is there anywhere list of "pulseaudio friendly" hardware / alsa drivers? It's not that clear just by looking alsa soundcard lists. - Timo > Lennart Poettering wrote: > Heh, I never understood why people think that old, bitrotten code could have less bugs than new, maintained code. > > snd_pcm_avail()/snd_pcm_rewind()/snd_pcm_delay() and frends tend to be broken on old drivers/old kernels, since PA is the first client that actively makes use of them. Parts of APIs that aren't used are > broken. That's true for ALSA as it is true for anything else. > > Also, developers don't like to focus on age old hw, so if bugs exist in old drivers it's a hard time to convince anyone to fix > them. Especially because commercal companies usually ask them to work on the new drivers, not the old ones. > > Also, just trying to work around problems is never doing any good for helping the bugs to get fixed properly. Please report the bug against ALSA, and be insistive to get the bug fixed. Even better, try to fix it yourself! > > Lennart >
