Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 15:43:26 -0700 From: "Kevin Downey" <redchin@gmail.com> To: "Joel Dahl" <joel@freebsd.org> Cc: Alexander Motin <mav@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: regression in HDA functionality Message-ID: <1d3ed48c0810021543s50ed29dbtf5848e9ede45045b@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <48E54290.5010600@FreeBSD.org> References: <1222892584.00020319.1222880402@10.7.7.3> <48E47ADF.7030004@FreeBSD.org> <20081002144243.3f2e7310@ernst.jennejohn.org> <48E4CC6C.6050407@FreeBSD.org> <20081002194411.387b7f32@ernst.jennejohn.org> <48E526A6.8000107@FreeBSD.org> <48E54290.5010600@FreeBSD.org>
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On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 2:52 PM, Joel Dahl <joel@freebsd.org> wrote:
> Alexander Motin wrote:
>>
>> Gary Jennejohn wrote:
>> > With the old kernel it just works.
>>
>> Old kernel just was unable to support even a half of that what new one
>> can. There was no SPDIF/HDMI, was no multi codec and multi device support,
>> often was no recording.
>
> But basic stuff like speakers and plugging in headphones "just worked" with
> the old driver. Your new driver may support much, much more features, but
> we've seen an alarming numbers of complaints about basic functionality being
> broken now (with the new driver).
>
> Oh, and I'm not trying to flame your work. It's great that we have someone
> that takes care of this code, but I just can't help but think that this
> driver should have gone through a few more iterations of testing before
> entering the tree.
>
> --
> Joel
The new hda definitely makes basic functionality "just work" for me.
With the previous hda when I plugged headphones into my msi wind
laptop sound continued to play out of the speakers.
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