Tuesday, October 13, 2009

The perils of saving sound card state; and why apologizing is good.

Bad news: I broke alsa-utils in Karmic.

Good news: I fixed it tonight. Please report your results.

Honestly, I tested the previous upload on Ubuntu, Kubuntu, and Xubuntu before committing to bzr -- even on different hardware! It just goes to show that I make dumb mistakes, so, sorry about that.

Mo' bett' news: many thanks to the awesome Tim Gardner, who imported alsa-driver stable (snapshot from 20091012) into ubuntu-karmic-lbm.git, which means that all you poor saps with eeePCs and HP dvs and Dell Studios will finally have less suck for audio. Granted, it will require installing linux-backports-modules-karmic in a week or so...

In other news (what?! there're more kinds?!), it really is decent to apologize when I make mistakes. This guy is a real gem, that is all.

4 comments:

  1. Round of applause for Tim Gardner and bonus point if he fixes the sound issue with HP dv6 1030 ef. Which is decribed in this bug : https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/427670

    Thank you for your hard work.

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  2. Thanks for your work, Daniel. I appreciate that you take the time to test what you do on Xubuntu too :) I wish there were more people like you in the community.

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  3. @yml-blog Yes, it is fixed in the latest alsa-driver stable snapshots (and thus will land in linux-backports-modules-2.6.31).

    @sidi You're welcome!

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  4. just added ppa:crimsun/ppa, reinstalled pulseaudio, and my horrible terrible memory leak problem is now fixed. thanks!

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