[Alsa-user] The status of the ALSA drivers

2003-01-23 Thread Howard Philips
Anyone know when ALSA is expected to reach a more or less stable state? I have tried ALSA on three different PCs, each with a different sound board (es18xx, Ensoniq 1371 and CMI 8378,) and the results have been rather disappointing, in that the sound behaves far more erratically with the ALSA dr

[Alsa-user] ALSA and the ESS ES1869 chip

2003-01-21 Thread Howard Philips
I've got a rather old laptop, the souncard of which is based on an ESS ES1869. It works all right with the kernel-shipped sound driver, but only in half duplex mode. I understand (I might be wrong though) that boards built around this chip can support full duples mode. If that is the case,

[Alsa-user] Issues with Ensoniq 1371 and ALSA 0.9.0rc6

2003-01-10 Thread Howard Philips
I have an Ensoniq 1371 board on a Linux box running kernel 2.4.18. Everything seems to be OK, in that all the drivers are loaded and I can play sounds all right. There are a few issues though, which were not present when using ALSA 0.5: 1) The board is reset to some (default, I guess) values