Re: 2.4.3-pre8 breaks trident/ALi5451 driver on Acer Travelmate 522TX

From: Ollie Lho (ollie@sis.com.tw)
Date: Wed Mar 28 2001 - 03:41:39 EST


Matthias Welwarsky wrote:
>
> Hi Ollie and List,
>
> the recent changes (as of 2.4.3-pre8) completely broke the driver for the
> ALi5451 sound codec on Acer Travelmate 522TX. The driver has been somewhat
> flakey all the time, xmms or lamp worked most of the time, KDE's arts stuff
> never worked at all.
>
> With 2.4.3-pre8 I cannot make it working at all. Once the module is loaded,
> the Log is filled with the following messages:
>
> Mar 28 10:11:26 melap kernel: ali: AC97 CODEC read timed out.
> Mar 28 10:11:45 melap last message repeated 482 times
>
> This happens even if you don't try to play sound.
>

        I don't have much idea about Ali's part of the driver. My best guess
is that someone screwed the codec init stuff.

Ollie
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