[oss-devel] oss-v4.1-build080509

[Clive Wright]

Sorry for not replying sooner but had to work today.
No supposed to be about it.
Bug is fixed in the current hg version.

Hannu Savolainen wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> This bug is supposed to be fixed in the current hg version.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Hannu
> -------
> Alex Maclean wrote:
>> Hannu Savolainen wrote:
>>   
>>> Clive Wright wrote:
>>>     
>>>> Hannu Savolainen wrote:
>>>>       
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I have uploaded the latest v4.1 sources to the download site. List of 
>>>>> the changes is below. More detailed change log is available from the 
>>>>> hg server (http://mercurial.opensound.com).
>>>>>
>>>>> This is significantly more experimental version than many earlier 
>>>>> v4.1 source drops. We have done modifications that remove all 
>>>>> artifical limits fror the number of audio devices supported by OSS. 
>>>>> There is still a limit for audio device files (now 256 and can be 
>>>>> increased to ~4000 by changing a macro). Otherwise the number of 
>>>>> devices is no limited by the number of minor device numbers supported 
>>>>> by each operating system.
>>>>>
>>>>>         
>>>> Just tried this source drop with onboard hdaudio and first impressions 
>>>> are not encouraging. I was aware that the removal of unnecessary 
>>>> devices was a high priority but prior to this drop 
>>>> /dev/oss/oss_hdaudio0/pcm0 (HD Audio front) was my main output but it 
>>>> is now missing (see attached ossinfo.txt).
>>>>       
>>> The hdaudio driver is supposed to be unchanged since the previous 
>>> version. Apparently there is a bug that was introduced before this drop. 
>>> Do you know what was the OSS version you were running before this one?
>>>     
>>>> Strangely there is a control in ossmix for selecting this non-existent 
>>>> output:
>>>> "jack.green.mode <front|input> (currently front)"
>>>>       
>>> This means the bug is in the part of the driver that handles the output 
>>> endpoints (DAC wirgets).
>>>     
>>>> Any help on how to debug this problem would be appreciated.
>>>>       
>>> You may compile the snoopy utility (located in the utils subdirectory) 
>>> and send the output to me (hannu at opensound.com).
>>>
>>> cd utils
>>> make snoopy
>>> ./snoopy > some_file.txt         (This needs to be done as root).
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>>
>>> Hannu
>>>

Thanks & kind regards,
Clive