Re: [Openvortex-dev] News

[Jeff Muizelaar]

On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 02:02:18AM -0400, Manuel Jander wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> There is a new patch
> http://galadriel.mat.utfsm.cl/~mjander/aureal/alsa/aureal-8e.patch.gz
> 
> It may work better regarding channel swapping. I simply void the first
> samplerate converter from being used ... somehow it seems to improve
> things, (remember the chip 'n dale bug ?). Looks like we are squashing
> some registers somewhere or its just a hardware "issue". Don't know.
> 
> Regarding the Scatter Gather buffer story:
> 
> The ALSA team demands solution 2 (accept any period size). All soundcard
> should act that way. While that seems reasonable to me, it will be
> pretty complex to implement that for Aureal cards (but absolutely not
> impossible).
> Well, as usual, any ideas are gladly welcome :D 
> 

nothing brillant yet, I guess we will probably just have to go with the
basically dynamic period size on hw, splitting each on both period and
page boundaries... That should still be better than the old oss driver
with 500 interrupts/sec.

also there is some patch attached...

-Jeff

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