Michael Cree wrote:
Yes, the ESS1888 driver failed to work on Alpha about the 2.6.14 to 2.6.16 kernel. It came right with alsa release 1.0.13 (IIRC) and I have been running the ESS1888 driver on an Alpha XP1000 without problems for about a year.
Nod. I take it things were working for you at least as recently as 2.6.22, then. I can try that version and see if it works for me. My situation is that I can't swear I've tried anything involving ALSA on the Alpha since 2.6.16 until recently, so I'm not sure this is really a regression in my case.
Because I threatened to do it :-), I built a 2.6.25-rc4+iommu_patch kernel with both the snd-es18xx and snd-sb8 modules available. As hoped (expected?), the snd-sb8 driver works fine. This would imply the problem is at least somewhat specific to the es18xx driver, and that the underlying ALSA infrastructure is reasonably healthy (notice that I intentionally avoided saying it was "sound" -- sorry, I never could pass on low-hanging fruit).