Re: [Openvortex-dev] au8830+via applied PLEASE TEST

[O.Sezer]

Manuel Jander wrote:
> Hallo,
>
> I applied Wilfrieds patch to current OpenVortex CVS. For all VIA
> mainboard chipset owners, please test this new version. Make sure that
> any "setpci" thingies remain DISABLED, since this is the only way to
> test the real effect of the patch.
>
> For those who had "setadbctrl failed" messages, please try it out. If
> you still get those messages, then report it here ASAP with the output
> of "lspci -v".
>
> Would be convenient to know which other VIA chipset variant have to be
> added, because ALSA is becoming feature frozen very soon, because of 1.0
> version release.
>
> Thank you very much.
>
> Best Regards
>
>
> > > Send the patch if you can. I'm too busy working on 3D support, and don't
> > > want to get distracted now. Thats why i'm very glad if some else
> > > contributes code :D
> >
> > and here it is! i implemented the pci latency and the bridge fix. both 
> > are required on my computer to use the card properly. the fixes are only 
> > done when the via kt133 agp bridge is found on the pci bus. infos about 
> > the tweaks can be found here:
>
>
> > http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/chris.day/guides/vortex.htm
> > http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/chris.day/guides/vtxagp.htm
> >
> > use the snd-au88?0 module parameter "pcifix" to override the default 
> > settings. the following values are valid:
> >
> > * 255: autodetect what has to be done (this is the default)
> > * 0: disable all tweaks
> > * 1: only apply aureal pci latency fix
> > * 2: only apply the via agp bridge "PCI #2 Master Control" fix
> > * 3: apply both fixes
> >
> > the attached patch applies against alsa 0.9.7c.

Applied Wilfried's patch to my 0.9.7c and it's working nicely
here. dmesg and lspci outputs are attached.

Regards;
Özkan Sezer

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