On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 12:58:15PM +0300, Mika Iisakkila wrote: > 27.3.2012 22:49, Pasi Kärkkäinen kirjoitti: >> I remember using alsa with em8300 already years ago? Was I dreaming? :) > > Perhaps you were using ALSA years ago. As far as I understand, the > audio layer options in the em8300 drivers are a no-op nowadays and > it will always try to use register_sound_dsp() etc and these will > fail without OSS support in the kernel. > "The default audio mode of the em8300 device support utilities and kernel modules (em8300 and kmod-em8300-* packages) has changed from OSS to ALSA to follow upstream." So yeah, there shouldn't be need for OSS support in the kernel. -- Pasi > Or what do I know, every time I upgrade my VDR installation I spend > an hour googling dead links and obscure mailing list archives for > what the "current" version of the drivers might be, and then another > half an hour finding out how & where to download it. Perhaps there > is a recent ALSA-only em8300 driver somewhere... > > OSS support was gone in Ubuntu Maverick: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/579300 > > ...and I had to do system upgrades Lucid -> Maverick -> Natty -> > Oneiric to get a 3.0 kernel so I could try the newer VDRs, and > only then found out the em8300 drivers wouldn't load. > > Anyway, until there's a proper fix for the subtitles, I'm going to > stay at .22 because it simply works for me, and the new style YLE > subtitles actually look a lot better with the dxr3. The old > subtitles always were fat and ugly compared to how they looked > on deviced that had a proper alpha channel, or whatever the culprit > with dxr3 is. > > --mika > > _______________________________________________ > vdr mailing list > vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
