Re: status of ppc support in official 2.4.0 or Alan's 2.4.0-ac1

Hi Derek,

Mon, Jan 8, 2001, Derek Homeier wrote:

[...] re 2.4.0 tree at ppc.samba,org (I think ;-).

I have some problems with dmasound and ppp modules, though. After some
fiddling with modules.conf I was able to get the mixer (from gkrellm)
to work and sound from internal and external speakers by aliasing
char-major-13 to dmasound_awacs, but there are occasional messages about
several sound-slot-[01] and sound-services-[01]-[013](?) modules
missing. The mixer tends to hang and has to be killed then. While
mpg123 did work, xmms always crashes with a Bus error on startup.

Hmm.  I built ppc.samba.org::linux-pmac-devel the other day (in response to
another query) and the dmasound module appeared to be fine.

Those messages relate to OSS (or even ALSA support, don't know without
checking) - and don't originate from the dmasound code.  Possibly there are
still facilities (like the DSP_GETCAPS type) that are not completely
implemented (or still not implemented at all).  I'll look when I get back to
it - or someone else can ;-).

For now, I suggest that (unless you desperately need it), - you disable the
OSS stuff in your .config.

ciao,
Iain.

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On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Iain Sandoe wrote:

Hi Derek,

Mon, Jan 8, 2001, Derek Homeier wrote:

[...] re 2.4.0 tree at ppc.samba,org (I think ;-).

quoted

I have some problems with dmasound and ppp modules, though. After some
fiddling with modules.conf I was able to get the mixer (from gkrellm)
to work and sound from internal and external speakers by aliasing
char-major-13 to dmasound_awacs, but there are occasional messages about
several sound-slot-[01] and sound-services-[01]-[013](?) modules
missing. The mixer tends to hang and has to be killed then. While
mpg123 did work, xmms always crashes with a Bus error on startup.

Hmm.  I built ppc.samba.org::linux-pmac-devel the other day (in response to
another query) and the dmasound module appeared to be fine.

Those messages relate to OSS (or even ALSA support, don't know without
checking) - and don't originate from the dmasound code.  Possibly there are
still facilities (like the DSP_GETCAPS type) that are not completely
implemented (or still not implemented at all).  I'll look when I get back to
it - or someone else can ;-).

For now, I suggest that (unless you desperately need it), - you disable the
OSS stuff in your .config.

O.K., did that (I did not have ALSA enabled in the first place), and didn't
see the errors again. Nonetheless, xmms is still erring on the Bus
(i.e. crashes as soon it is started).

Cheers,
							Derek


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