Bug#279279: kernel-image-2.6.8-k7: VIA 8233A repeating sounds patch
On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 10:28:51PM +0000, David Sterratt wrote:
> Package: kernel-image-2.6.8-k7
> Version 2.6.8-1
>
> Using the ALSA drivers, my VIA 8233A card repeats sounds, making sound
> unusable. This can be remedied by the acpi=off and noapic options, but
> having these options switched off doesn't seem to let me use my nvidia
> graphics card. A better solution is to backport a patch to the kernel
> that hasn't yet made it to the sources:
>
> http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3175
>
> I'm attaching a diff against the Debian package that works for me.
>
> Hope this is the right procedure -- I've not reported a kernel bug
> before.
Thanks, bug reports with a fix are most excellent indeed.
The patch seems pretty harmless so I will go ahead and put
it into SVN. It should appear in the next release, whenever
that is.
--
Horms
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