Re: sound choking with trident driver (SiS 7018)

From: Muli Ben-Yehuda (mulix@actcom.co.il)
Date: Thu Aug 15 2002 - 07:16:02 EST


On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 01:11:49PM +0200, Jurgen Kramer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a laptop with a SiS 7018 soundchip. While playing music
> the sound chokes every few seconds (2.4.19 kernel). I am not sure where
> the problem lies. With the ALSA drivers under kernel 2.5 the problem is
> not there.
>
> Is there a newer driver for the SiS 7018 (trident.c). The current driver
> in 2.4 is dated October 2001.

the -ac tree and 2.4.20-pre1 and onwards (as well as 2.5) contain an
updated trident.c driver. I don't see anything there that is obviously
related to your problems, but you might wish to give the updated
driver a try anyway.

Thanks and please let us know how it goes,

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