Apple Tumbler and Snapper audio: looking for testers

[Marco Trillo]

Hi,

On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 2:48 PM, Justin Hibbits <jrh29 at alumni.cwru.edu> wrote:
> I had meant /dev/dsp*, not /dev/pcm, was a typo.  When did they start getting
> created on demand?  A kernel from roughly 2 months ago created /dev/dsp0 at load
> time, instead of access time, so I was confused this time around.

>From a quick look at CVS, it seems this was changed in revision 1.103
of sound/pcm/dsp.c (and corresponding revision 1.51 of
man/man4/pcm.4).

> Running an
> actual test, with ogg123, worked.  I don't have speaker output, but I do have
> line-out output.  I think the speaker output is a different issue, because I
> don't even get the startup chime through the speaker anymore.

Hmm.. the lack of startup chime through the speaker could be due to
PRAM volume being set to muted, but this should not affect the driver
at all, as it does not read the PRAM volume. Also I think the PRAM
volume is global to all outputs, so it would affect the line-out as
well.

>
> Guess long story short, it works well.  Now I just need to get my ass in gear
> and get the altivec code done, then my G4 will be nearly 100% complete.
>

Nice... Many thanks for testing it!


Regards,
Marco