Re: Sound on PowerMac G4 (digital audio)

2010-08-02 Thread Risto Suominen
2010/7/18, Gary Driggs : > Is that the PowerMac3,4? Yes, it is. It's been a while since I wrote these patches, and they seem to be included in kernel 2.6.35. Is there a Debian version using it? Risto -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubs

Re: Sound on PowerMac G4 (digital audio)

2010-07-18 Thread Thomas Carlson
I would certainly be willing to test a new version of the kernel if it could be rolled into a new weekly build. Tom On Jul 17, 2010, at 11:35 AM, nello martuscielli wrote: > On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Thomas Carlson > wrote: >> I have been testing various flavors of PPC Linux on my old

Re: Sound on PowerMac G4 (digital audio)

2010-07-17 Thread Gary
I ask because I have a few PowerMac3,3s in my basement but they use a different chipset (the 3,4 uses the TAS3001 chip). According to the OpenBSD driver for the TAS3001, it's used in the following machines: - PowerBook3,3 - PowerBook4,1 - PowerMac3,4

Re: Sound on PowerMac G4 (digital audio)

2010-07-17 Thread Gary Driggs
Is that the PowerMac3,4? If so, we might still have a couple in the office so I'll look around on Monday. Q.v. http://www.everymac.com/systems/by_capability/mac-specs-by-machine-model-machine-id.html -Gary -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "un

Re: Sound on PowerMac G4 (digital audio)

2010-07-17 Thread Thomas Carlson
Thanks for the information. I would like to offer my help in testing the fix, but my Linux skills are not up to the task unfortunately. When I get some time I will work on that. Again, thanks. Cheers, Tom On Jul 17, 2010, at 11:35 AM, nello martuscielli wrote: > On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 3:03

Re: Sound on PowerMac G4 (digital audio)

2010-07-17 Thread nello martuscielli
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Thomas Carlson wrote: > I have been testing various flavors of PPC Linux on my old PowerMac G4 > (digital audio) to come up with a replacement for OS X Tiger.  The latest, > Debian Squeeze with xfce as the window manager.  It runs fine, but as with > all the oth

Sound on PowerMac G4 (digital audio)

2010-07-17 Thread Thomas Carlson
I have been testing various flavors of PPC Linux on my old PowerMac G4 (digital audio) to come up with a replacement for OS X Tiger. The latest, Debian Squeeze with xfce as the window manager. It runs fine, but as with all the other versions I've tried (Lenny, Yellow Dog, Ubuntu, etc.), the s