Re: my ESS playback speed patch

Thomas Sailer (sailer@ife.ee.ethz.ch)
Mon, 23 Aug 1999 13:55:56 +0200

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Andy Sloane wrote:
>
> I see the patch I made a few months ago for ESS playback speed fixing
> (drivers/sound/sb_ess.c) was included into the mainline kernels now. Well,
> it seems to break things more than fix them, so I am asking that the patch
> be pulled.
>
> I don't fully understand what's wrong with it. My 1869 needed the patch to
> play correctly up until I booted win98 and came back... now it needs the
> old driver. There must be something missing there which enables the higher
> clock frequencies but until somebody finds out what it is, the old driver
> will probably work better for everyone.

Check mixer register 0x71, Bit 5 (named 'New reg A1h'). This changes
the meaning of controller register 0xa1 on my Solo1 chip.

Tom

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