From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: dmasound audio patch From: Michel =?ISO-8859-1?Q?D=E4nzer?= To: Bill Fink Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org, yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com In-Reply-To: <20020408084102.195d67bd.billfink@mindspring.com> References: <20020407172358.36f3fd3e.billfink@mindspring.com> <1018261838.1870.7347.camel@tibook> <20020408084102.195d67bd.billfink@mindspring.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Date: 08 Apr 2002 14:50:52 +0200 Message-Id: <1018270252.1870.8601.camel@tibook> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Mon, 2002-04-08 at 14:41, Bill Fink wrote: > On 08 Apr 2002, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > On Sun, 2002-04-07 at 23:23, Bill Fink wrote: > > > > > > A friend of mine, Rob Scott, worked up a patch to the dmasound driver > > > that fixes some of the PPC endianness issues by doing byte swapping > > > in the driver. He uses it on a Titanium PowerBook, and I am using it > > > on a dual 500 MHz G4 with good results. Before the patch, using xmms > > > with the AudioCD Reader plugin, I had to use the esound driver since > > > the OSS driver just gave static. Now I can use the OSS driver directly, > > > so there's no need to run the esd daemon. > > > > Must be an old version of xmms? It swaps bytes if necessary since 1.2.5 > > or so. > > Hi Michel, > > That's good to know. I was using xmms-1.2.4 that came with YDL 2.1, > but I see that YDL 2.2 has xmms-1.2.5, so I'll give that a try. Hmm, looking at our xmms changelog, the endianness fixes may only be in 1.2.6 or later. YMMV. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/