From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3A30F1D2.16C3EA2A@wtal.de> Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2000 15:36:02 +0100 From: Christof Petig MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Halfmann, Klaus" CC: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: AW: Sound on an iBook? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: "Halfmann, Klaus" wrote: > Christof Petig 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 ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/