Re: [PATCH] Fix Alsa issues including Oopses with OSS emulation

2004-12-26 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 07:35:13PM +0100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Wed, 2004-12-22 at 19:13 +0100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > This patch (which will be send upstream separately by the Alsa folks) fixes > > an signed vs. unsigned char problem in Alsa which was the cause of the Oops

Re: [PATCH] Fix Alsa issues including Oopses with OSS emulation

2004-12-23 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Thu, 2004-12-23 at 23:25 +1100, Dean Hamstead wrote: > given the variety of hardware would it be worth splitting up snd-powermac? > > how easily can code be used from darwin? Code cannot be copied "as-is" but it's definitely a good source of informations. Also, the various codec chips used on

Re: [PATCH] Fix Alsa issues including Oopses with OSS emulation

2004-12-23 Thread Dean Hamstead
given the variety of hardware would it be worth splitting up snd-powermac? how easily can code be used from darwin? Dean Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Thu, 2004-12-23 at 11:15 +1100, Dean Hamstead wrote: the pmac driver has issues on my imac dv, it works but alas it doesnt know what to

Re: [PATCH] Fix Alsa issues including Oopses with OSS emulation

2004-12-23 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 07:55:02AM +0100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Thu, 2004-12-23 at 07:25 +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 07:35:13PM +0100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > On Wed, 2004-12-22 at 19:13 +0100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > > This patch (whic

Re: [PATCH] Fix Alsa issues including Oopses with OSS emulation

2004-12-23 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Thu, 2004-12-23 at 11:15 +1100, Dean Hamstead wrote: > the pmac driver has issues on my imac dv, it works but alas > it doesnt know what to do when plugging in headphones > not to mention lack of input sensors for my ibook (clamshell) > > i realise though that if you cant get specs and no one >

Re: [PATCH] Fix Alsa issues including Oopses with OSS emulation

2004-12-23 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Thu, 2004-12-23 at 07:25 +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 07:35:13PM +0100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > On Wed, 2004-12-22 at 19:13 +0100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > This patch (which will be send upstream separately by the Alsa folks) > > > fixes > > > an sign

Re: [PATCH] Fix Alsa issues including Oopses with OSS emulation

2004-12-23 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Thu, 2004-12-23 at 01:36 +0200, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > Nice to know that work is being done on the pmac ALSA driver. :) > > However, I still cannot get ALSA to work at all on this iMac's Burgundy: > https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=306 > > The old OSS driver still

Re: [PATCH] Fix Alsa issues including Oopses with OSS emulation

2004-12-23 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 07:35:13PM +0100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Wed, 2004-12-22 at 19:13 +0100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > This patch (which will be send upstream separately by the Alsa folks) fixes > > an signed vs. unsigned char problem in Alsa which was the cause of the Oops

Re: [PATCH] Fix Alsa issues including Oopses with OSS emulation

2004-12-22 Thread Dean Hamstead
the pmac driver has issues on my imac dv, it works but alas it doesnt know what to do when plugging in headphones not to mention lack of input sensors for my ibook (clamshell) i realise though that if you cant get specs and no one wants to tinker around stuff wont get implemented. but if its in O

Re: [PATCH] Fix Alsa issues including Oopses with OSS emulation

2004-12-22 Thread Martin-Éric Racine
Nice to know that work is being done on the pmac ALSA driver. :) However, I still cannot get ALSA to work at all on this iMac's Burgundy: https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=306 The old OSS driver still works, so I know that the hardware is not at fault; this is clearly an AL

Re: [PATCH] Fix Alsa issues including Oopses with OSS emulation

2004-12-22 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2004-12-22 at 19:13 +0100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > This patch (which will be send upstream separately by the Alsa folks) fixes > an signed vs. unsigned char problem in Alsa which was the cause of the Oops > people were experiencing on ppc with OSS emulation and possibly other issues

[PATCH] Fix Alsa issues including Oopses with OSS emulation

2004-12-22 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
This patch (which will be send upstream separately by the Alsa folks) fixes an signed vs. unsigned char problem in Alsa which was the cause of the Oops people were experiencing on ppc with OSS emulation and possibly other issues. Index: linux-work/sound/core/pcm_misc.c