On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

New "screamer" revisions of AWACS have more registers than defined in the
current Linux driver. I'm not sure this is the cause of our problem, but
it could be. I thinking about a problem setting up an external amplifier.

Now, do you propose any method of determining exactly *where* the problem
lies? How can we manage to get hold of the specs of the new audio chips?
I mean, it works on MacOS, someone ought to know how to program the device!

Note also that a working sound driver wont give you CD playback "out of
the box". On all new machines, the CD audio output is _not_ wired to the
sound chip. You have to use a player software that actually reads the
digital audio datas from the CD via ATAPI and sends them back to the

I know. I use "cdparanoia 1- - | play -"
However it seems to be quite solid, i.e. I don't ever hear any 'blips'
resulting from jitter, so maybe the DVD-ROM drive is just reading the
audio data with full fidelity.

-topi


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