Alsa patch for nvidia onboard sound

[Martin Stransky]

The patch was merged to ALSA CVS so you may check the new alsa-driver 
(when it comes) or download the affected file from ALSA CVS and merge it 
to the latest driver package.
how-to is here - http://people.redhat.com/stransky/alsa
Ma.


Sadda Teh wrote:
> Understood, I'm assuming that the changes will go into the kernel once 
> they release their next RC (I hope). In the meantime I'll try to compile 
> in the patch myself and see if it actually makes a difference. BTW, 
> great kernel compilation instructions in the release notes. Thanks to 
> whoever wrote those. Now, I'll go pester the folks at Alsa to get that 
> patch upstream.
> 
> On 3/21/06, *Dan Williams* <dcbw at redhat.com <mailto:dcbw at redhat.com>> wrote:
> 
>     On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 13:57 -0500, Sadda Teh wrote:
>      > Might anyone be willing to apply the patch mentioned here:
>      > https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=1895
>     <https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=1895> (You have
>      > to click the Guest Login link to view)
>      >
>      > I, and probably many others have a motherboard affected by this bug.
>      > It would be much appreciated if the fix would make it into FC5.
>      > Thanks!
> 
>     Unless patches are crashers, they likely won't make it into FC5 without
>     being in the upstream kernel.  Work with the ALSA project to make sure
>     that patch gets into the upstream kernel ASAP, and it will show up in
>     Fedora quite soon after that.
> 
>     Part of this is for quality reasons; if the patch makes it into the
>     kernel, then it's likely it's good enough.  It's also for API reasons
>     and maintainability.  The less different Fedora kernels are from
>     upstream "vanilla" kernels, the less work it is to update Fedora kernels
>     every time a new upstream kernel is released.
> 
>     Dan
> 
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