- whole-frag  write only whole fragments (optimization affecting
                        playback only)
          - no-silence  do not fill silence ahead to avoid clicks
+         - buggy-ptr   Returns the whitespace blocks in GETOPTR ioctl
+                       instead of filled blocks
 
   Example: echo "x11amp 128 16384" > /proc/asound/card0/pcm0p/oss
            echo "squake 0 0 disable" > /proc/asound/card0/pcm0c/oss
 
        } else {
                delay = snd_pcm_oss_bytes(substream, delay);
                if (stream == SNDRV_PCM_STREAM_PLAYBACK) {
-                       info.blocks = (runtime->oss.buffer_bytes - delay - fixup) / runtime->oss.period_bytes;
+                       snd_pcm_oss_setup_t *setup = substream->oss.setup;
+                       if (setup && setup->buggyptr)
+                               info.blocks = (runtime->oss.buffer_bytes - delay - fixup) / runtime->oss.period_bytes;
+                       else
+                               info.blocks = (delay + fixup) / runtime->oss.period_bytes;
                        info.bytes = (runtime->oss.bytes - delay) & INT_MAX;
                } else {
                        delay += fixup;
                                template.partialfrag = 1;
                        } else if (!strcmp(str, "no-silence")) {
                                template.nosilence = 1;
+                       } else if (!strcmp(str, "buggy-ptr")) {
+                               template.buggyptr = 1;
                        }
                } while (*str);
                if (setup == NULL) {