From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Martin Loschwitz <madkiss@madkiss.org>
Cc: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>,
Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Problems on Apple iBook with ALSA and snd-powermac [2.6.11.5]
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 10:27:43 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1111969664.5409.42.camel@gaston> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050327230835.GA9006@minerva.local.lan>
On Mon, 2005-03-28 at 01:08 +0200, Martin Loschwitz wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> given that the alsa-user-mailinglist has some strange kind of authentication
> mechanism, and admin-authorization and whatever, I'm writing this mail to the
> LKML (it would have been CCed here anyway).
>
> The current snd-powermac module from ALSA seems to have trouble with modern
> Apple iBook computers (and possible other Apple notebooks, but I can't tell
> for sure). With 2.6.11.5 and having snd-powermac loaded, playing some sound
> results in a very noisy playback; you can only hear that if you turn volume
> on the PCM and VOL mixers up to the maximum, and even then, it's very hard
> to hear. After removing snd-powermac and loading the "old" pmac-driver, the
> sound playback works just fine.
Have you tried disabling DRC Or increasing the DRC range level ?
> I have been able to find out that with 2.6.8 (at least with the version that
> Debian ships currently), the problem does not appear; snd-powermac does its
> job very nicely there. Given that 2.6.11 included some ALSA changes, I just
> compiled 2.6.10 on this box and booted it, and had the same problems I have
> with snd-powermac on 2.6.11.5.
>
> Is this a known problem and is a fix available for it? If not, what can I do
> to help with hunting this bug? I really like ALSA and prefer it over the old
> pmac-sound-driver.
>
--
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-28 0:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-27 23:08 Problems on Apple iBook with ALSA and snd-powermac [2.6.11.5] Martin Loschwitz
2005-03-28 0:27 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2005-03-29 3:20 ` Lee Revell
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