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On Saturday 10 January 2009 12:26:09 Mick wrote: |
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> On Saturday 10 January 2009, Dale wrote: |
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> > Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> > > On Fri, 9 Jan 2009 22:37:44 +0000, Mick wrote: |
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> > >> Filed a bug and it was suggested to me that I try |
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> > >> building the alsa drivers as modules. I tried it on for size and |
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> > >> guess what, it worked! |
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> > > AFAIR the Gentoo ALSA docs have always recommended building as modules. |
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> > And yet I have never used modules for anything except Nvidia. That has |
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> > worked for me over 5 years now. What a puzzle. |
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> Same here. With three different machines I had alsa built in the kernel, |
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> less that six months or so after alsa first became part of the kernel |
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> (can't remember if I was running stable back then). |
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My money says that if you track this down to the exact lines of code that |
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cause the problem, you'll find something along the lines of incorrect loading |
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order. As in, module A must load before module B, but you compiled B into the |
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kernel. Plus no dev picked it up and nobody coded a check for it. |
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I believe the correct technical term for this is "a software bug" :-) |
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It's usually worth the effort to report a bug, the least that can happen is |
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someone else's life is easier in the future |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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