Re: [PATCH] ppc64: very basic desktop g5 sound support (#2)

Andreas Schwab
2005-04-13T03:35:47Z

Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> writes:

> This patch hacks the current PowerMac Alsa driver to add some basic
> support of analog sound output to some desktop G5s. It has severe
> limitations though:
>
> - Only 44100Khz 16 bits
> - Only work on G5 models using a TAS3004 analog code, that is early
> single CPU desktops and all dual CPU desktops at this date, but none
> of the more recent ones like iMac G5.
> - It does analog only, no digital/SPDIF support at all, no native
> AC3 support

On my PowerMac the internal speaker is now working, but unfortunately on
the line-out I get nearly no output. I have pushed both the master and
pcm control to the maximum and still barely hear anything.

Andreas.

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