On 18/03/2008, at 4:24 PM, Bob Tracy wrote:

I'll try the below when I get back from my business trip (in approx.
two weeks).  Apologies for the inconvenience, but the Alpha hardly
qualifies as a laptop :-).  If someone else with a Miata (or other
Alpha with the ES1888 sound device) cares to give this a try, I *will*
be keeping up with my e-mail.

I should be able to give this a go over Easter on a PWS500au, which,  
IIRC, is a miata system.

As an aside, I have been using the ESS1888 on my XP1000 (in between  
system partition corruptions and restoring the system three times - I  
suspect a failing controller card which I have now removed) through  
the OSS interface for a couple of weeks without problems.  This is  
indicative that the ESS1888 problem may be specific to certain Alpha  
models.

Michael.