From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: iBook G3: status of 2.6.5 From: Michel =?ISO-8859-1?Q?D=E4nzer?= To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Gioele Barabucci , linuxppc-dev list In-Reply-To: <1080690668.1216.65.camel@gaston> References: <1080687801.13152.56.camel@gaston> <1080689835.9195.52.camel@thor.asgaard.local> <1080690668.1216.65.camel@gaston> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Message-Id: <1080696981.13364.8.camel@thor.asgaard.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 03:36:22 +0200 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 01:51, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 09:37, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 01:03, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > > > > > Is there a working ALSA driver or I have to use the OSS one? > > > > > > I'm not sure how well the Alsa driver will work, it works pretty badly > > > for me on the tipb 1Ghz, though the dmasound (oss) one works fine. > > > > ALSA works better than dmasound on the same machine here... must be a > > configuration issue on your end. :) > > Really weird. I talked to the xine maintainer, and it really seems > like the "clacs" I hear duing DVD playback are caused by the Alsa > driver (though it does acheive better lip sync), while dmasound > has proper sound quality, but incorrect sync... I'll admit that I don't watch DVDs on my TiBook, so that's not part of my testing. And xine indeed seems to trigger obscure bugs in ALSA. I believe some have only been fixed for the upcoming 1.0.4 release. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | Debian (powerpc), X and DRI developer Libre software enthusiast | http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/