On 5 Aug 2003, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 05:07, Jeff Feige wrote: > > My questions are as follows: > > > 2. My mixer (/dev/mixer) doesn't really seem to work properly. The Main > > volume control does nothing, while the speaker control adjusts the > > volume. This would be OK except: 1. My volume control in XMMS (I'm > > running gnome w/o esound (too slow) - so I'm using OSS in XMMS) doesn't > > work. 2. Since I cannot separately control PCM, Master and Speaker > > volume, I cannot listen to headphones and turn the built-in speaker > > volume down. > > The sound driver is an old venerable pile of hack I'd rather not > touch for now, fixing that may break other machines... The Alsa > codebase is a lot saner and will be the only supported driver in > 2.6, so if there's something to fix, let's fix it there and not in > good old dmasound.
Speaking of which, when can we start using the 2.6 kernel on an iMac? :) Btw, compiling my own PPC 2.4 kernel, using either the dmasound or a patched-in ALSA, fails completely for me. I have already reported extensively about my dmasound problems here. Using the ALSA patch packages, I get a kernel that freezes the machine dead during bootup. In other words, I have yet to be able to compile myself a kernel that works on PPC, while it works just fine on i386 and on hppa; in both cases, I can play with the compiling optins ad nauseum and produce good kernels all the time. -- Martin-Éric Racine http://www.pp.fishpool.fi/~q-funk/
