13 Dec
2001
13 Dec
'01
08:52
On Thursday 13 December 2001 09.49, Derek Fountain wrote:
The MB on my machine at work has one of these and I tried to install the new ALSA drivers (0.9-something) for it alongside a 2.4.16 kernel on Monday. Horribly distorted noise. :( I backed the ALSA drivers out to 0.5-something and it works fine.
I'm still on SuSE-7.1 - perhaps the latest ALSA drivers are broken and 7.2 ships them?
Alsa 0.9 is a very different animal from 0.5. It's not just a case of a simple upgrade. Many programs can't use the 0.9 driver without a recompile. Note xine, for example, which has one audio plugin for 0.5, and one for 0.9. I'm on 7.3 and it's still alsa 0.5 here. //Anders