Re: [Openvortex-dev] alsa 0.9.4 + au8830 = sound is too fast

[Ryan Underwood]

On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 02:37:05PM -0500, Callum Lerwick wrote:
> 
> (*) Whats this about the OSS driver causing memory corruption? I have 
> been noticing corrupt mp3's slowly turning up on my system, I was 
> assuming it was from the fact my system has started suffering from an 
> odd quirk of locking hard when its bumped too hard, (need to move it 
> away from my feet and the falling distance of my heavy IBM model M 
> keyboard...) with 512mb RAM and at least 256mb of it being used as file 
> cache you lose a lot of data if the system locks hard. ;P Could it have 
> been the Aureal driver the whole time? If its known to be capable of 
> corrupting RAM, its really should be labled with a big red flashing USER 
> BEWARE! ;P

I have never heard of this happening.  Are there any other anecdotal
experiences that point to a serious problem like this in the OSS driver?
If so, I agree that it should be labeled with a warning.

> Also, who owns the Sourceforge Aureal project? It seems to be quite dead 
> for some time now. Can someone get a "This project is dead, everything's 
> happening at the Savannah project." pointer posted there? The 
> sourceforge page still seems to be the most known and highest listed in 
> the search engines last I checked. ;P

The project itself may be dead as far as mainline development goes, but
people still post patches there and the forums are the best place for
aureal tech support under linux.  I think an update of the
aureal.sf.net homepage would be a good idea though with a pointer to
savannah.

> Perhaps with the driver becoming mostly useable we should start a bit of 
> a PR campaign. Attract more testers and eyeballs on the code. Perhaps 
> pretty up the homepage and get it slashdotted. I volunteer for such duty. 
> ;)

I don't think it's quite ready for slashdotting yet.  Few more weeks of
hacking at least to iron out the obvious bugs, then get testers to
uncover the not so obvious ones.  anyone interested in actual
coding is most likely already here.

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Ryan Underwood, <nemesis at icequake.net>, icq=10317253