On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 01:45:56PM +0100, Roland Stigge wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Martin Habets wrote:
> > Thanks for the info. I guess you must have an "audio" device on the
> > ebus then, and I failed to check for that in my original patch.
> > Could you try the patch attached in stead of the original one, please?
>
> Unfortunately, it didn't work out-of-the-box. With a bit of polishing I
> could at least make it run (see attached incremental patch to your changes).
>
> Some comments to the respective changes:
>
> (1) $PROCFS was not defined, so I set it manually. I didn't know where
> you intended it to come from so I just set it in the beginning of the
> patch to /proc.
It is set at line 30 of the script. Maybe you are using an old version of
alsconf?
> (2) I guess you meant mounting openpromfs in case /proc/openprom exists?
> Therefore && instead of ||.
I meant to mount it if it has not been mounted yet. Fixed the code for this.
> (3) Under /proc/openprom/[EMAIL PROTECTED],4700000/[EMAIL PROTECTED], I have
> a directory
> called "[EMAIL PROTECTED],200000". Therefore, I needed to search for "audio*"
> instead of "audio".
>
> (4) The file "compatible" contains: "'SUNW,CS4231'" (with single
> quotes). I needed to remove them.
>
> Now, alsaconf detects the device fine. (Also consider FJP's comments on
> using modprobe.)
Thanks for testing and for the fixes.
> However, there are some issues left with my CS4231: On bootup, the
> modules are not loaded automatically (even hotplug doesn't care about
> them). So I need to put "snd-sun-cs4231" into /etc/modules. Further,
> when I want to play something (e.g., with xmms), I often (unpredictably)
> get (white?) noise. Retrying helps every 3rd or 4th time. Maybe
> alignment or endianess issues. But these are different issues and not
> related to alsaconf I think. If noone else has experienced this yet, I
> will need to dive into the driver myself later.
What kernel version are you on? A number of patches have been submitted
on the sparclinux list in the last 2 months, the last one on october 29th.
If you have those, it is best to follow up with Georg Chini on this.
Thanks,
Martin
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--- alsaconf.orig 2005-10-31 13:02:07.000000000 +0000
+++ alsaconf 2005-11-02 08:16:08.000000000 +0000
@@ -688,7 +688,8 @@
# PowerMac
#
if grep -q MacRISC $PROCFS/cpuinfo; then
- /sbin/modprobe -a -l | grep 'snd-powermac' | \
+ MODDIR=/lib/modules/`uname -r`
+ find $MODDIR -name 'snd-powermac' -print | \
while read i; do
i=${i##*/}
i=${i%%.o}
@@ -701,19 +702,22 @@
# Sparc
#
if grep -q Sparc $PROCFS/cpuinfo; then
- test -r $PROCFS/openprom || /bin/mount -t openpromfs none
$PROCFS/openprom >/dev/null 2>&1
+ test -r $PROCFS/openprom/name || /bin/mount -t openpromfs none
$PROCFS/openprom >/dev/null 2>&1
# Check for an "audio" device
audio=
compat=
if test -r $PROCFS/openprom; then
- audio=`find $PROCFS/openprom -follow -type d -name "audio" -print`
+ audio=`find $PROCFS/openprom -follow -type d -name "audio*" -print`
fi
if test -n "$audio"; then
compat=`cat $audio/compatible`
+ compat=${compat#\'}
+ compat=${compat%\'}
compat=${compat#SUNW,}
fi
# Go through all cards we have
- /sbin/modprobe -a -l | grep 'snd-sun-' | \
+ MODDIR=/lib/modules/`uname -r`
+ find $MODDIR -name 'snd-sun-*' -print | \
while read i; do
i=${i##*/}
i=${i%%.o}
@@ -1339,7 +1343,8 @@
if [ -s "$FOUND" ]; then
while read dev card ; do
- /sbin/modprobe -a -l | grep -q -E $card'\.(o|ko)' || continue
+ MODDIR=/lib/modules/`uname -r`
+ find $MODDIR -type f | grep -q -E $card'\.(o|ko)' || continue
cardname=`find_device_name $dev | cut -c 1-64`
if [ -z "$cardname" ]; then
cardname="$card"
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