Re: Miata sound card config

[Dan Frasnelli <dfrasnel alphalinux org>]

> > I have been updating Linux on the PWS433. I am now running 2.2.13 using
> > the OSS sb.o driver. I get no complaints loading the driver and the card
> > seems to initialize OK in so far as it plays sound from the CD - which
> > is probably all I have ever done with the sound card before, so it may
> > not be anything to do with the update. 
> > 
> > However when I try to play a wav or mp3 they play at what sounds like about
> > half speed. I seem to remember seeing something about this before but can't
> > find where. Something to do with 8/16 bit?

Earlier this year, someone updated the ESS driver to support more
chipsets.  It had been in the -ac branch, but was migrated to the 
main tree a couple releases ago.  Alan put me in contact with the
guy who updated the driver, and we came up with a working 
solution.  Specify the prm esstype=1688 when inserting sb.o
on your Miata should yield a working driver.

Regards,
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Dan Frasnelli
Security analyst