Subject: Re: sony vaio 650
From: Patrice Belleville (patrice@cs.ubc.ca)
Date: Thu Dec 14 2000 - 04:19:18 GMT+1
Patrice Belleville <patrice@cs.ubc.ca> writes:
> Glitch <brandon@ovnet.com> writes:
>
> > The yamaha ds-xg chipset for the sound card doesn't work correctly with
> > any ALSA drivers up to 5.9d. There is a bug in those versions that make
> > the sound repeat during the playback of files and basically makes it too
> > annoying to let it proceed. i download the new 5.10 drivers but couldn't
> > get them to compile with kernel 2.4 so I cant say whether the driver for
> > the yamaha chipset has been fixed yet.
>
> Strange... The only problem I have (and have ever had) was not being able
> to play .midi files. Other that than, all versions of the ALSA drivers
> from 5.9b to 5.10 have worked fine with the kernel of the day [I installed
> 2.4.0-test12pre7 and version 5.10 of the drivers two days ago without any
> problems].
>
> Did you forget to disable PNP stuff in the BIOS setup?
> Patrice
I forgot to mention I have a PCGF-430, not a 650, but since they use the
same video chip this should (theoretically) not make any difference.
PAtrice
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