Request for test of powermac driver

Request for test of powermac driver

[Takashi Iwai]

Hi,

i've updated snd-powermac driver on cvs.
so far, a G3 desktop (with screamer) was confirmed to work, but the
others are not tested.
thus i'd like to ask you powermac users to update and test the driver,
and give me the feedback whether it works or not.

a new feature of the driver is "automatic muting".
it's supported on awacs/screamer, burgundy and tumbler chips.
when the headphone is plugged/unplugged, then the mute switch is
changed automatically.
this feature is disabled by turning "Auto Mute Switch" control off.

also, screamer driver has now more controls, bass/treble and
amp. master volume, headphone volume/mutes.

the tumber was improved at the last update, supporting bass/treble and
DRC (dynamic-range compression) controls.


Takashi

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Re: [Alsa-user] Request for test of powermac driver

[Takashi Iwai]

At Wed, 15 May 2002 16:43:42 -0500,
Michal Seta wrote:
> 
> I will be happy to test it but not before the weekend.  I have an
> iMac.  Is it supposed to work with an iMac as well? 
 
yes, it should work.  (the alsa 0.5.x driver did work.)
the powermac driver supports many different chips.  the chipset can be
found in the name listed on /proc/asound/cards.


Takashi

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Re: Request for test of powermac driver

[Takashi Iwai]

Hi,

the version I committed at the last night was wrong, a non-working
one.  I now checked the working version into cvs.
if you get the sources yesterday, please update again.
the latest rcs version of each file is:

	awacs.c: 1.10
	pmac.c: 1.9
	pmac.h: 1.4
	tumbler.c: 1.8
	

thanks,


Takashi

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Re: Request for test of powermac driver

[Stefan Gartner]

hi,
the driver seems to work on my ibook2 (tumbler). However, I noticed a few odd 
things:

* If I unplug the headphones, the speakers stay muted.
* When muting/unmuting "Auto Mute", the speakers get silent, but don't appear 
as muted in alsamixer. After muting/unmuting "PC Speaker" the speakers work 
again.
* "Headphone Detection" doesn't appear to have any effect.
* "Headphone" doesn't get muted/unmuted automatically (if it's muted and I 
plug in the headphones, it stays muted and the speakers don't get muted - 
maybe this is intended).

I'm not sure if points 2, 3 and 4 are bugs or errors on my side, but point 1 
most certainly is a bug.

Oh, and I had to change line 1353 of alsa-kernel/ppc/pmac.c from

        if (chip->mode <= PMAC_BURGUNDY)

to

        if (chip->model <= PMAC_BURGUNDY)

(rcs version 1.9)

hope this helps,
stefang

p.s:  is there a way to get the built-in microphone on the ibook working?

On Wednesday 15 May 2002 18:50, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> Hi,
>
> i've updated snd-powermac driver on cvs.
> so far, a G3 desktop (with screamer) was confirmed to work, but the
> others are not tested.
> thus i'd like to ask you powermac users to update and test the driver,
> and give me the feedback whether it works or not.
>
> a new feature of the driver is "automatic muting".
> it's supported on awacs/screamer, burgundy and tumbler chips.
> when the headphone is plugged/unplugged, then the mute switch is
> changed automatically.
> this feature is disabled by turning "Auto Mute Switch" control off.
>
> also, screamer driver has now more controls, bass/treble and
> amp. master volume, headphone volume/mutes.
>
> the tumber was improved at the last update, supporting bass/treble and
> DRC (dynamic-range compression) controls.
>
>
> Takashi
>
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Re: [Alsa-user] Request for test of powermac driver

[Michal Seta]

Hi,

I'm having trouble compiling the new powermac driver:

gcc -DALSA_BUILD -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE=1 -I/home/mis/CVS/alsa-driver/include -I/usr/src/linux/include -O2 -D__powerpc__ -fsigned-char -fno-builtin -msoft-float -ffixed-r2 -Wno-uninitialized -mmultiple -mstring -DLINUX -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe  -DKBUILD_BASENAME=powermac   -c -o powermac.o powermac.c
../alsa-kernel/ppc/powermac.c:40: warning: `snd_enable' defined but not used
gcc -DALSA_BUILD -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE=1 -I/home/mis/CVS/alsa-driver/include -I/usr/src/linux/include -O2 -D__powerpc__ -fsigned-char -fno-builtin -msoft-float -ffixed-r2 -Wno-uninitialized -mmultiple -mstring -DLINUX -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe  -DKBUILD_BASENAME=pmac   -c -o pmac.o pmac.c
In file included from pmac.c:1:
../alsa-kernel/ppc/pmac.c: In function `snd_pmac_new':
../alsa-kernel/ppc/pmac.c:1353: structure has no member named `mode'
make[1]: *** [pmac.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/mis/CVS/alsa-driver/ppc'
make: *** [compile] Error 1

any hints?

Mike

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Re: Re: [Alsa-user] Request for test of powermac driver

[Jörn Nettingsmeier]

Michal Seta wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm having trouble compiling the new powermac driver:
> 
> gcc -DALSA_BUILD -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE=1 -I/home/mis/CVS/alsa-driver/include -I/usr/src/linux/include -O2 -D__powerpc__ -fsigned-char -fno-builtin -msoft-float -ffixed-r2 -Wno-uninitialized -mmultiple -mstring -DLINUX -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe  -DKBUILD_BASENAME=powermac   -c -o powermac.o powermac.c
> ../alsa-kernel/ppc/powermac.c:40: warning: `snd_enable' defined but not used
> gcc -DALSA_BUILD -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE=1 -I/home/mis/CVS/alsa-driver/include -I/usr/src/linux/include -O2 -D__powerpc__ -fsigned-char -fno-builtin -msoft-float -ffixed-r2 -Wno-uninitialized -mmultiple -mstring -DLINUX -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe  -DKBUILD_BASENAME=pmac   -c -o pmac.o pmac.c
> In file included from pmac.c:1:
> ../alsa-kernel/ppc/pmac.c: In function `snd_pmac_new':
> ../alsa-kernel/ppc/pmac.c:1353: structure has no member named `mode'
> make[1]: *** [pmac.o] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/mis/CVS/alsa-driver/ppc'
> make: *** [compile] Error 1

that's a typo. change "mode" to "model".

jörn

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Re: [Alsa-devel Request for test of powermac driver

[Michal Seta]

On Mon, 20 May 2002 22:36:06 +0200
Jörn Nettingsmeier <nettings@folkwang-hochschule.de> wrote:
> > In file included from pmac.c:1:
> > ../alsa-kernel/ppc/pmac.c: In function `snd_pmac_new':
> > ../alsa-kernel/ppc/pmac.c:1353: structure has no member named `mode'
> > make[1]: *** [pmac.o] Error 1
> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/mis/CVS/alsa-driver/ppc'
> > make: *** [compile] Error 1

> that's a typo. change "mode" to "model".

ok.  thanks.  Jack H. has pointed this out to me already and it compiled fine and installed and all is fine and dandy.  However, there's one problem that I have noticed (and I had the same problem with the 0.5.12 version as well):  The CD will not play.  I mean, it plays but there's no sound.  The only way to play CDs is through a cdplayer plugin in xmms but any other cd app (I tried wmcdplay, xfreecd, groovycd and cdplay commandline) will not play.  Also, mixers will not allow me to change levels for Line-in, Mic and CD inputs.  Although this is not such a problem, I can control the audio input in the apps I'm using, I was wondering if this is a wanted behaviour.  At this time alsamixer shows those levels at '0' and other mixers at 100%.  

I'm on an iMac indigo 350Mhz, Debian woody, 2.4.18 kernel.

otherwise the drivers are working fine for me but I haven't tested it extensively, yet.  Also, I started to recompile some apps agains the new alsa libs and so far no problems.

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Re: [Alsa-user] Request for test of powermac driver

[Graham Leggett]

Takashi Iwai wrote:

> i've updated snd-powermac driver on cvs.
> so far, a G3 desktop (with screamer) was confirmed to work, but the
> others are not tested.
> thus i'd like to ask you powermac users to update and test the driver,
> and give me the feedback whether it works or not.

Just tried it, and playback works!!! Will give gnomemeeting a try
tomorrow and see if recording works.

AWACS chip, 1999 Powerbook G3.

> a new feature of the driver is "automatic muting".
> it's supported on awacs/screamer, burgundy and tumbler chips.
> when the headphone is plugged/unplugged, then the mute switch is
> changed automatically.
> this feature is disabled by turning "Auto Mute Switch" control off.

Works here.

> also, screamer driver has now more controls, bass/treble and
> amp. master volume, headphone volume/mutes.
> 
> the tumber was improved at the last update, supporting bass/treble and
> DRC (dynamic-range compression) controls.

Any new sliders in the AWACS driver? The CD, Line and Mic levels are
still not changeable, but at least I am getting sound! :)

Regards,
Graham
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Re: Re: [Alsa-user] Request for test of powermac driver

[Takashi Iwai]

At Wed, 22 May 2002 19:49:36 +0200,
Graham Leggett wrote:
> 
> Any new sliders in the AWACS driver? The CD, Line and Mic levels are
> still not changeable, but at least I am getting sound! :)

that's correct behavior.
CD, Line and Mic have no volumes but only capture switches, although
alsamixer shows them as if they have such.
on awacs, there are only Master and PC Speaker volumes.


Takashi

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