WINEALSA: comment on unexpected shrinking of mmap-buffer (resend)

Robert Reif reif at earthlink.net
Mon Aug 15 17:51:40 CDT 2005


Alex Villací­s Lasso wrote:

> The first test that fails with the ALSA driver is the so-called 
> "reference" tone, which, as far as I could see, is played with a 
> primary buffer, and no secondary buffer. The reference tone uses the 
> hardware position directly, which wraps around at a buffer size that 
> changes unexpectedly when switching playback formats. I have prepared 
> a patch that "fixes" this, by re-querying the buffer size in the case 
> of a primary buffer, and displaying a warning if it detects a buffer 
> size change. However, I don't know if the buffer size is supposed to 
> remain constant across buffer format changes. If it does, then the 
> patch would need to be modified to mark this as a TODO.

Fix the wine ALSA driver rather than the test unless you can prove that 
the test fails on Windows.




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