[riptide-announce] New riptide-0.4mbsibeta02122500 linux driver release

[Marc Boucher]

Hi,

A new experimental version of the open-source Conexant (Rockwell) RipTide
Audio/Communication Controller driver for Linux is now available from

        http://www.mbsi.ca/cnxtlindrv

This release provides pre-compiled binaries for the latest Redhat and
Mandrake kernel updates.

A detailed list of changes is available below.

Marc

PS: Archived copies of previous releases are available via a link
located at the bottom of the main download page.



Wed Dec 25 2002 Marc Boucher <marc at mbsi.ca>
	* Released riptide-0.4mbsibeta02122500.

Wed Dec 25 2002 Marc Boucher <marc at mbsi.ca>
	* makefile: added Mandrake 9.0 linux-2.4.19-19mdk kernel.
	* makefile: added RedHat 2.4.18-19.7.x and 2.4.18-19.8.0 kernels.

Sun Nov 03 2002 Marc Boucher <marc at mbsi.ca>
	* Released riptide-0.4mbsibeta02110301.

Sun Nov 03 2002 Marc Boucher <marc at mbsi.ca>
	* modules/kernelcompiler.sh: use gcc 3 to build modules for
	SuSE's 2.4.19-4GB kernel.

Sun Nov 03 2002 Marc Boucher <marc at mbsi.ca>
	* Released riptide-0.4mbsibeta02110300.

Sun Nov 03 2002 Marc Boucher <marc at mbsi.ca>
	* makefile: added RedHat 2.4.18-17.7.x and 2.4.18-17.8.0 kernels.
	* makefile: added SuSE 2.4.19-4GB kernel.
	* modules/kernelcompiler.sh: use gcc 3 to build modules for
	RedHat's 2.4.18-17.8.0 kernel.
	* scripts/ripconfig.in: put module configuration in /etc/modules.d and
	run update-modules if present (for gentoo).

Fri Oct 11 2002 Marc Boucher <marc at mbsi.ca>
	* Released riptide-0.4mbsibeta02101001.

Fri Oct 11 2002 Marc Boucher <marc at mbsi.ca>
	* modules/kernelcompiler.sh: use gcc 3 to build modules for
	RedHat's 2.4.18-14 kernel.

Thu Oct 10 2002 Marc Boucher <marc at mbsi.ca>
	* Released riptide-0.4mbsibeta02101000.

Thu Oct 10 2002 Marc Boucher <marc at mbsi.ca>
	* makefile: added RedHat 8.0 linux-2.4.18-14 kernel.
	* makefile: added Mandrake 9.0 linux-2.4.19-16mdk kernel and
	removed obsolete SuSE 2.4.4-4GB kernel.
	* modules/kernelcompiler.sh: added gcc-2.96 (for Mandrake 9) and
	RPM_BUILD_ROOT support.

Sun Sep 29 2002 Marc Boucher <marc at mbsi.ca>
	* makefile: tardist: changed way tar.gz files are generated to
	avoid gzip "decompression OK, trailing garbage ignored" messages.

Wed Sep 18 2002 Marc Boucher <marc at mbsi.ca>
	* rt_hw.c:RipTideCreateChannel(): initialize pChannelInfo->sgdList
	to NULL. (Thanks to nokos at gmx.net for this fix)

Sun Sep 01 2002 Marc Boucher <marc at mbsi.ca>
	* Released riptide-0.4mbsibeta02090100.

Sun Sep 01 2002 Marc Boucher <marc at mbsi.ca>
	* modules/riptidem.c: rt_poll(): finally implemented! Debug msgs gone.
	Driver should now work with desktop audio daemons, such as KDE's artsd.
	* modules/riptidem.c: rt_read_dsp(), rt_write_dsp(): don't sleep if
	O_NONBLOCK.
	* scripts/ripconfig.in: added extra /etc/modules.conf aliases for
	automatic devfs module loading.
	* makefile: added Mandrake 2.4.18-8.1mdk kernel.
	* makefile: added RedHat 2.4.9-34, 2.4.18-5, and 2.4.18-10 kernels.
	* Added modules/kernelcompiler.sh, a small script which tries
	to guess which compiler should be used to build kernel modules.
	* modules/common.mak: use kernelcompiler.sh to determine default CC
	* modules/common.mak, INSTALL: added notes about KERNELSRC for
	Debian 3.0 users.

Wed Jun 12 2002 Marc Boucher <marc at mbsi.ca>
	* Released riptide-0.3mbsibeta02061200.

Wed Jun 12 2002 Marc Boucher <marc at mbsi.ca>
	* scripts/ripconfig.in: dynamically allocate sound-slot-N alias names.
	* modules/rt_mdl.c: do not request_region() for hwIOSynth as it
	conflicts with opl3 module.
	* modules/: silenced some debugging messages.

Tue Jun 11 2002 Marc Boucher <marc at mbsi.ca>
	* Initial beta version (riptide-0.3mbsibeta02061100).