Re: [Protux-devel] the bus detection problem + plus parallel makefiles

[Martin Herren]

Luciano Giordana wrote:
> I think I found the bug on bus detectetion.
>
> the routines snd_pcm_test_xxxx in MustuxAudioBus are wrongly validating the 
> buses.

You remember that some snd_pcm_test_xxx() functions don't return what's 
written in the doc (doc out of date) ? We already had this problem once, 
and finally it worked well when checking for the right return value.

Anyway, i think that sooner or later MustuxAudioBus will require to be 
completely rewritten. ALSA provides functions to detect audio cards and 
their capabilities, we just should learn how to use them. And they use 
.alsarc, so we first should learn to correctly set up .alsarc for 
multichannel cards.

> It seems this is not the correct way to use them (what is correct in 
> ALSA anyway? the docs does not teach how to use such functions clearly).
> SO I set back to use supports(...) routine that it seems to be working. Please 
> Remon, do not change it until we find for sure the correct way test hardware 
> capabilites.
>
> Also, I am creating some paralles makefiles so I can work smoothly on protux. 
> I beg Martin to full revise autostuff , since I compared with many source 
> packages and protux/libmustux just do too much things when compared, causing 
> more problems here 

Perhaps it would help if you would say with wich source pachages you 
compared it... so i could take a look.
As already said, i used the current configuration on several different 
distributions with several different configuration, and i haven't seen 
autotools failing since last revision...

/Martin