Re: CS5530 Alsa driver fails

2007-08-01 Thread Ash Willis
> the VGA video. If your box has VSA2 then VSA2 firmware has some kind of > hooks to allow a native sound driver to take over and to reroute the > interrupts without SB emulation. I don't have the docs for VSA2 but the > horribly big natsemi provided audio driver does show how to do it. > I

Re: CS5530 Alsa driver fails

2007-08-01 Thread Ash Willis
>Hello, > >Linux: 2.6.23-rc1-git3 >Hardware: CX5530 > >After "modprobe snd-cs5530" I have: >CS5530: XpressAudio at 0x220 >CS5530: MPU at 0x330 >CS5530: IRQ: 9 DMA8: 0 DMA16: 5 >sb: can't grab irq 9 >CS5530: Could not create SoundBlaster >CS5530_Audio: probe of :00:12.3 failed with error -16

Re: CS5530 Alsa driver fails

2007-08-01 Thread Ash Willis
Hello, Linux: 2.6.23-rc1-git3 Hardware: CX5530 After modprobe snd-cs5530 I have: CS5530: XpressAudio at 0x220 CS5530: MPU at 0x330 CS5530: IRQ: 9 DMA8: 0 DMA16: 5 sb: can't grab irq 9 CS5530: Could not create SoundBlaster CS5530_Audio: probe of :00:12.3 failed with error -16 Thank You

Re: CS5530 Alsa driver fails

2007-08-01 Thread Ash Willis
the VGA video. If your box has VSA2 then VSA2 firmware has some kind of hooks to allow a native sound driver to take over and to reroute the interrupts without SB emulation. I don't have the docs for VSA2 but the horribly big natsemi provided audio driver does show how to do it. I wouldn't

Re: Is it time for remove (crap) ALSA from kernel tree ?

2007-06-24 Thread Ash Willis
kloczek, The fact that it is now open source does mean that it's a suitable replacement. If you actually want a productive discussion, you'd be better off making an attempt at describing exactly _why_ ALSA is 'crap' and how in your opinion OSS overcomes ALSA's shortfalls. IMHO, it would be far

Re: Is it time for remove (crap) ALSA from kernel tree ?

2007-06-24 Thread Ash Willis
kloczek, The fact that it is now open source does mean that it's a suitable replacement. If you actually want a productive discussion, you'd be better off making an attempt at describing exactly _why_ ALSA is 'crap' and how in your opinion OSS overcomes ALSA's shortfalls. IMHO, it would be far