Re: OSS Audio borked between 2.6.6 and 2.6.10

[Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk>]

On Sunday 13 March 2005 22:26, you wrote:
> Patrick McFarland <pmcfarland@downeast.net> writes:
> > On Saturday 12 March 2005 01:31 pm, Greg Stark wrote:
> > > OSS Audio doesn't work properly for Quake3 in 2.6.10 but it worked in
> > > 2.6.6. In fact I have the same problems in 2.6.9-rc1 so I assume 2.6.9
> > > is affected as well. This is with the Intel i810 drivers.
> >
> > Why are you not using ALSA?
>
> Well frankly because whenever I tried it it didn't work. The i810 drivers
> were *completely* broken in the 2.6 kernel I original installed, 2.6.5 I
> think.
>
> In any case I understood that Quake doesn't work with alsa drivers because
> it depends on mmapped output which they don't support at all. Or something
> like that. I gave up on them when I found OSS worked reliably.

Quake3's doing something strange with the OSS devices. You can work around it 
in ALSA's OSS emulation by disabling the record features for the quake3.x86 
binary, and it should all work fine.

echo "quake3.x86 0 0 direct" > /proc/asound/card0/pcm0p/oss
echo "quake3.x86 0 0 disable" > /proc/asound/card0/pcm0c/oss

(I gleamed the above from google.com, you might need to modify it slightly).

The intel8x0 driver is probably one of the most widely used ALSA drivers, so 
I'd hope it wasn't broken! My laptop uses the driver, it is superb.

-- 
Cheers,
Alistair.

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