[Alsa-devel] devfs OSS /dev/sound/* problem.

2003-03-10 Thread mjander
Hello, I noticed the following bug: If i load more than one soundcard driver (example ens1371 and intel8x0), with OSS support i get a error message from "devfs", that it "could not append to /dev/sound", and the second soundcard is unable to create its OSS /dev/sound/* file nodes. I notic

[Alsa-devel] Scatter Gather DMA

2003-03-05 Thread mjander
Hi, Another question... :) The Aureal Vortex has Scatter Gather DMA's for each audio channel. But these SG DMA support only max 4 pages. Each page can have a programable size of upto 4 KB. I was studying the ALSA SG scheme and it doesnt seme to fit into the aureal vortex SG buffer scheme, because

[Alsa-devel] New driver

2003-03-04 Thread mjander
Hi, I started writing a new driver for the Aureal Vortex soundcards. Now the howto is pretty good, and the basic stuff is nearly complete, but how do i integrate my driver into the configure scripts, Makefiles, and all sorts of thingiees that makee up the tree ? I placed the driver (several f