On 10 Oct 2001, John Goerzen wrote: > I've got a tibook G4 running sid and benh's latest kernels. I've > loaded the dmasound_pmac module and it seems to be OK. However I have > lots of troubles making it work. For instance, when KDE starts, it > complains: > > Sound server fatal error: > Error while initializing the sound driver: > Can't set playform format(_format = 17, asked driver to give 16, got 32)
I have seen similar errors from artsd - it appparently doesn't wish to obey the sound driver's request that it use a different (in this case, big-endian) sample format. Someone should rattle the aRts developers' cages over this. > Playing from apps like videolan often results in a couple of seconds > of very scratchy audio, followed by static, followed by silence. > Mixers seems to have no effect once the silence appears (everything's > muted). I don't know what to try at this point. I haven't tried VLC on anything, so I don't know about this. The developers of VideoLan, however, probably aren't making their client obey the driver's request for big-endian samples instead of little-endian samples. > dmasound_pmac: Awacs/Screamer Codec Mfct: 1 Rev 3 > dmasound_pmac: found Keylargo rev 2 or later - H/W byte-swap disabled > PowerMac Screamer DMA sound driver rev 016 installed I didn't know that the PowerBook G4 also used KeyLargo. Does the Screamer chip in it support little-endian samples? Does anyone know? Derrik Pates | Sysadmin, Douglas School | #linuxOS on EFnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] | District (dsdk12.net) | #linuxOS on OPN
