-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Johannes Berg wrote: > Hey, > > Currently snd-aoa is known to work on the following machines: > * PowerBook5,8 > * PowerBook5,7 > * PowerMac8,1 > * PowerMac8,2 > * 17" October 2005 PowerBook (don't know the number)
That would be the PowerBook 5,9 (confirmed working, that's what I have). > * PowerMac11,2 > * PowerBook6,8 > and my > * PowerBook5,6 > People with those machines are encouraged to use and stress-test it, it > also provides much better hardware support than snd-powermac, for > example it can actually reprogram the hardware if you have a 48KHz file > instead of having to digitally downsample it to 44.1KHz like required > with snd-powermac in most cases. When writing documentation, you might want to add that the ALSA-plugin in XMMS & Audacious requires a period time of 100ms instead of the default of 50ms, as otherwise the sou*click*nd is n*click*ot ver*click*y good. (A look at the current code of that plugin, to see how the volume control code can be fixed would be highly appreciated) > There are apparently some cases where it loses interrupts and then the > sound is garbled, my brother's investigating that at the moment, it > doesn't happen with my powerbook nor with my powermac. Not seen this, although I must say it does not resume from sleep as gracefully as I have seen you describe it. > But the other reason for writing this mail is that I finally found the > last remaining bug that prevented sound module autoloading! :) Much appreciated, thank you :) > Now, when you boot, mac-io is already built-in so provides the i2s > device, which my i2sbus module binds to. Since udev synthesizes events, > i2sbus gets loaded automatically. Now, i2sbus creates uevents on its > own, with the layout number given as the MODALIAS. Hence, the layout > fabric module is loaded because it has an alias for all the layouts it > handles, and it in turn requests all the codec modules that it requires. > Also, this means that 'modprobe i2sbus' will suffice to get the driver > up and running without a reboot, provided that all modules are > installed. > > Have fun, > johannes Regards, Tony V. (Chainsaw) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3-ecc0.1.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEa3Icp5vW4rUFj5oRAuFXAJwMgzHiZLal33irvZt6qtDbo1L+rQCbBb4d KF5TAISi/CUHYj+ZqJjPpFE= =ptuO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
