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From: Tony Vroon <chainsaw@gentoo•org>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions•net>
Cc: linuxppc-dev list <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs•org>,
	debian-powerpc <debian-powerpc@lists•debian.org>
Subject: Re: snd-aoa status update / automatic driver loading
Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 19:57:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <446B721D.8020203@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1147860564.14395.6.camel@johannes>

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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)
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  reply	other threads:[~2006-05-17 19:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-17 10:09 snd-aoa status update / automatic driver loading Johannes Berg
2006-05-17 18:57 ` Tony Vroon [this message]
2006-05-19 10:22   ` Johannes Berg
2006-05-20 23:56     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-05-22  6:42       ` Johannes Berg
2006-05-23 22:15         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-05-24  9:42           ` Johannes Berg
2006-05-25  8:00             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-05-25  9:42               ` Johannes Berg
2006-05-26  1:30                 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-05-17 19:53 ` Andreas Schwab
2006-05-18 10:14   ` Johannes Berg
2006-05-17 21:54 ` Wolfgang Pfeiffer
2006-05-17 22:19   ` Wolfgang Pfeiffer
2006-05-18 10:13     ` Johannes Berg
2006-05-18 18:17       ` Wolfgang Pfeiffer
2006-05-18 22:06         ` Andreas Schwab
2006-05-19 12:50         ` Johannes Berg
2006-05-19 14:40           ` Wolfgang Pfeiffer
2006-05-19 14:40             ` Johannes Berg
2006-05-17 22:30   ` Dean Hamstead
2006-05-18  0:28     ` Wolfgang Pfeiffer
2006-05-18  0:39       ` Dean Hamstead
2006-05-18  1:01   ` Wolfgang Pfeiffer
2006-05-18  1:08   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-05-18  7:25 ` Eddy Petrişor
2006-05-18 10:23   ` Johannes Berg
2006-05-19 13:20     ` Paul Collins
2006-05-19 13:46       ` Johannes Berg
2006-05-19 14:40         ` Paul Collins
2006-05-19 14:49           ` Johannes Berg
2006-05-19 15:13             ` Paul Collins
2006-05-19 14:33       ` Andreas Schwab
2006-05-19 14:37         ` Johannes Berg
2006-05-23 15:41       ` Sjoerd Simons
2006-05-25  7:21         ` Eddy Petrişor
2006-05-25  7:21           ` Eddy Petrişor
2006-05-25  9:43           ` Johannes Berg
2006-05-25 17:44     ` Eddy Petrişor
2006-05-25 18:47       ` Johannes Berg
2006-05-18  8:56 ` Rene Rebe
2006-05-18 10:08   ` Johannes Berg
     [not found] ` <200605180002.01669.borge@arivene.net>
     [not found]   ` <20060518004141.GC1552@kunpuu.plessy.org>
2006-05-20 14:57     ` Benjamin Berg
2006-05-20 23:59       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-05-23  3:11 ` Hollis Blanchard
2006-05-23 12:27   ` Johannes Berg
2006-05-23 14:46     ` Hollis Blanchard
2006-05-23 15:25       ` Hollis Blanchard
2006-05-24  9:41       ` Johannes Berg

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