On Thu, 23 Jul 2009, Takashi Iwai wrote:
At Thu, 23 Jul 2009 10:39:04 +0200 (CEST), Jaroslav Kysela wrote:
On Thu, 23 Jul 2009, Takashi Iwai wrote:
At Thu, 23 Jul 2009 10:14:27 +0200 (CEST), Jaroslav Kysela wrote:
On Thu, 23 Jul 2009, Wu Fengguang wrote:
Is this with the patched (as is on sound git tree) kernel?
Yes, it's unmodified latest git tree.
What if changing from #if 1 to #if 0?
This makes 8-channel playback work again.
Can we check if we running under VMWare at runtime?
No idea. But, an option to allow to choose manually might be usefl for other broken hardwares that require a similar fallback like VMware, although this doesn't conflict with the automatic detection of vmware.
Yes, maybe a sysfs attribute might be useful.
How about the patch below? This is in sound-unstable tree fix/pcm-hwptr-debug branch.
Acked-by: Jaroslav Kysela perex@perex.cz
Thanks, Jaroslav
----- Jaroslav Kysela perex@perex.cz Linux Kernel Sound Maintainer ALSA Project, Red Hat, Inc.