From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Ben Elliston <bje@redhat.com>
To: fche@redhat.com (Frank Ch. Eigler)
Cc: sid@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: sidcomp.audio test failure
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 05:23:00 -0000
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>>>>> "Frank" == Frank Ch Eigler <fche@redhat.com> writes:

  Frank> : [...]  Instead, the test should perhaps keep polling the component
  Frank> : until it has emptied its buffer and *then* check that the
  Frank> : tx-sample-count is the correct value.  Thoughts?  [...]

  Frank> Yup, makes sense.  Do your test logs include the following message?

  Frank>         sid-io-audio: flushing buffers on tx close

Yes.

  Frank> That would indicate that insufficient polling was performed to fully
  Frank> drain the output buffer.  While the "tx-pending" pin/attribute is
  Frank> non-zero, the driver .exp file should tickle the component's "poll"
  Frank> pin periodically, before finally turning off "tx-mode".

  Frank> Unfortunately, I don't have any sound cards of small enough tx
  Frank> capacity to test this the easiest possible way. :-)

You can use my system -- I will turn the speakers down. :-)

Ben