Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 27 Jan 2003 15:57:19 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.21-pre3 kernel crash |
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On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 08:47:57PM +0000, Edward Tandi wrote: > 2) The OSS audio driver. It works and this is the main reason why I use > this version of the kernel. The issue I have with it, is that if I start > certain applications (gaim, macromedia flash player 6 for example), esd > gets itself into some kind of hung/blocked state. When this happens, I > need to kill esd and re-start it. Games and xmms work however. The > reason I ask about this is that the downloaded driver from the viaarena > works on a stock kernel without this glitch. Is this a known problem? > > The chip is a VT8235 and I'm happy that it mostly works in pre3 too. The > alsa driver reportedly works OK.
hmmm, not a known problem to me. Alan?
> While I'm here, any chance of getting the bcm4400 NIC driver into the > 2.4 kernel?
Nope, no chance at all. It's more of BroadCom's abstraction layer, bug-filled crap.
The route here is to fix up "b44" in 2.5, and then put it into 2.4.
Jeff
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