matt yee-king wrote:
>
> Hello
>
> sorry for posting on devel cos i'm not a developer, but no one on
> alsa-user seemed to be able to help me....
>
> Could somebody tell me the state of the alsa 0.9beta12 powermac driver?
>
> i tried to build it on a benh 2.4.19 kernel as well as a yellowdog
> 2.4.10 one. it won't build - there seems to be a problem with the
> suspend/ sleep features.
there are some header files that alsa does not seem to know about
(something like feature.h).
could you post the error mesg ?
> i managed to build 0.9beta10 but this doesn't seem to work properly -
> sound does come out with some oss apps but the alsamixer doesn't seem to
> control the volumes. when trying this version , i found that alsa-lib
> 9beta10 wouldn't build so i used alsa-lib-9beta12... ...
>
> so is the driver just not up and running yet? shoould i try 0.5?
hardly worth it. 0.5 is dead, and i doubt it even has mac support.
> has
> anyone got the driver working on a revA tibook?
at least i got it to run on a g3 powerbook, but that won't help you
much, i'm afraid.
here is an old posting from takashi that did the trick for me.
perhaps your problem is similar ?
> At Mon, 08 Oct 2001 19:33:02 +0200,
> Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote:
> >
> > "Jeffrey W. Baker" wrote:
> > >
> > > The pmac driver doesn't compile from the latest release nor from CVS. It
> > > uses feature_test, feature_set, and feature_clear symbols, but these are
> > > provided by arch/ppc/kernel/feature.c which doesn't seem to get built (at
> > > least in my configuration.). Also, nothing in the kernel depends on
> > > feature.c and no part of the kernel uses the three above-mentioned
> > > functions.
> > >
> > > It seems like feature.c might have been replaced with pmac_feature.c,
> > > although I'm not seeing any particular mapping between the functions in
> > > those two files.
> >
> > same here with alsa-cvs from last wednesday and the then current
> > benh kernel on a g3 pismo powerbook.
> > takashi, are you still maintaining it or should we be nagging ian
> > sandoe instead ?
>
> Sorry, I'd like to work on it but had no time for 0.9.0.
>
> Anyway, now I fixed the relevant part and committed to cvs.
> There is a definition of "PMAC_NEW_FEATURE" in pmac.c.
> If your kernel supports pmac_feature.h, please define this (as default
> it's undefined). Unfortunately, there is no way to determine whether
> the new or old feature is used during compile.
> In future, this check will be done in configure script or Ben will add
> a condition/flag for this purpose.
>
>
> Takashi
>
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- Edsger W. Dijkstra
Sigh.
- me
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