Re: AW: Sound on an iBook?

[Christof Petig <christof.petig@wtal.de>]

"Halfmann, Klaus" wrote:

> Christof Petig <mailto:christof.petig@wtal.de> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I got no answer on the debian-ppc list, so I'll try here.
> >
> > does anybody know a way to get the sound hardware on my iBook working?
> > Everything else is working fine.
> >
>
> The iBook has a different Hardware than all other Macs found so far.

Yes, this validates my suspicions.

> There is an (unsupported, ugly ...) version of dmasound that
> sometimes works on iBooks, but it provides no control of the
> output,

read: no volume control, no frequency change? That is not nice but
acceptable.

> it just takes what OF or MacOS left behind. So using
> such a Kernel/Module is a kind of russian roulette because it
> will block forever when intializing fails.

I would love/dare to try it.

> This issue needs a good assembler-/Forth- Programmer that must
> use MacsBug in MacOS or dissassemble the OF to find out whats
> going on there.

Oh no, that sounds really bad. No specs available, no darwin driver?

> I'd really like to do that but that is nothing
> I can do when going to work by train ....

Hmm. It reads like a joke. But I love to work on my computer in a train.

I would offer some time but I don't know any PPC assembly. C and
Linux-kernel are no strangers to me.

Christof


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