Beta 2 bug still in 5728

[Guest]

When I was using Beta 2, my SB Live card didn't have a supported vista driver
so I used a modified one that worked fine.

However, whenever the PC went into Sleep or Hibernation mode, when it comes
out of those modes the sound would just disappear. Only a system reboot would
bring the sound back.

I submitted this as a bug in Beta 2 and personally I thought it had a lot to
do with that modified driver I was using rather than Vista itself.

Fast forward to now, using RC1 build 5728 and my SB Live card gets updated
automatically through windows update with a good vista driver. Yay! But I was
shocked to see that the same bug is still there now. I have to reboot my PC
to get sound working again after the PC wakes up from Sleep mode.

I am able to reproduce this like clock work and I submitted another bug
report on it.

But how come a bug that was submitted months ago, and after a number of new
builds, this bug made it through? Strange.

 

[mayor]

Methinks you need to contact the SB folks, the suppliers of drivers for
their merchandise.

 

[David R. Longnecker]

Not sure which exact model you have, but the Live! 5.1 in one machine and
Audigy 2 ZS in another both had Vista 32-bit drivers available through Creative.
With these drivers, I have not encountered the sleep or hibernate issue
that you are having.

www.creativelabs.com > Support > Downloads, select your product and 'Windows
Vista 32-bit' and 64-bit are available on the OS dropdown.

-dl

 

[Guest]

My card is a SB Live Digital (Value edition PCI based - sold in thousands of
Dell machines a couple of years ago).

The problem for me is that Creative does not have any Vista drivers for this
card but through windows update MSFT has a SB Live driver for Vista now and
it seems to work great except for the bug I mentioned.

Contacting Creative about a Vista driver provided by MSFT probably won't get
me far. And ofcourse MSFT might say it's something Creative would have to
help me out with. I'm kinda stuck with this annoying, to say the very least,
bug.

 

[Rock]

When I was using Beta 2, my SB Live card didn't have a supported vista
driver
so I used a modified one that worked fine.

However, whenever the PC went into Sleep or Hibernation mode, when it
comes
out of those modes the sound would just disappear. Only a system reboot
would
bring the sound back.

I submitted this as a bug in Beta 2 and personally I thought it had a lot
to
do with that modified driver I was using rather than Vista itself.

Fast forward to now, using RC1 build 5728 and my SB Live card gets updated
automatically through windows update with a good vista driver. Yay! But I
was
shocked to see that the same bug is still there now. I have to reboot my
PC
to get sound working again after the PC wakes up from Sleep mode.

I am able to reproduce this like clock work and I submitted another bug
report on it.

But how come a bug that was submitted months ago, and after a number of
new
builds, this bug made it through? Strange.

File another bug report. You might want to let Creative know too. New
builds mean new code. The drivers could have been for RC1 or earlier, but
not redone for 5728. The point is, until the OS is stable so the driver
developers can hit a stationary target, there will be these issues.

 

[Rock]

Contacting Creative about a Vista driver provided by MSFT probably won't
get
me far. And ofcourse MSFT might say it's something Creative would have to
help me out with. I'm kinda stuck with this annoying, to say the very
least,
bug.

<snip>

MS does not write the driver, Creative did. MS is offering it because
Creative gave it to them. So Creative is the one to talk to about problems
with the driver.

 

[Guest]

I will let Creative know. I didn't know it was created by them. I thought it
was a generic vista driver for my sound card created by MSFT.

 

[Rock]

I will let Creative know. I didn't know it was created by them. I thought
it
was a generic vista driver for my sound card created by MSFT.

MS doesn't write the drivers for devices except for MS hardware. They are
all supplied by the device vendors.