Hi Matt, My latest uImage from about 1 year ago includes working sound in kernel 2.6.24.3 (with older etch drivers for esound on trendtac epc700 it's working). http://projects.kwaak.net/twiki/pub/Epc700/KernelPort26Compiling/uImage_RV10 You may try it out (at own risk), it's not build with softfloat. Sound issues: W.r.t. kernel 2.4, it is possible the esound server / sdl driver are not working because: 0) There is some dma issue when using sd card which makes the kernel stuck when playing sound. I have changed the order of dma between sound & mmc which seems to help. 1) May need to 'fix' the esound issue by using the original esound binary from etch in lenny. 2) Some of the sdl part I could not fix (my fmsx compiled version, still have no sound on kernel 2.6) . This is where the annoying thing about kernel 2.6 is about, I guess. Item 0) is workaroundable, but maybe not ok for other minibooks. Item 1) is workaroundable, but maybe not ok for other sound drivers like asound / alsa and others. Item 2) need more/other fixes in the kernel sound drivers. The latest kernel fixes / patches / details so far are maintained and reported by Nikolaus: http://projects.goldelico.com/p/letux-400/ You may modify the kernel to build with softfloat and try to fix the sound issue to get you're new distro stable in kernel 2.6.
Grt Ruben. PS. At the moment Lenny, fluxbox & rox is good enough for me. > Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 08:18:23 -0500 > From: matt.oudenho...@gmail.com > To: daniel...@gmx.net > CC: mipsbook-devel@linuxtogo.org > Subject: Re: [Mipsbook-devel] New rootfs > > I built everything with softfloat and used libmad and tremor for > mplayer. Mp3's play great with madplay and/or mplayer. Video's encoded > with settings similar to what is needed for pocket pc's also play > extremely well full screened. > > While i too like debian it was just too heavy on these machines. My > rootfs at 125mb would take about 500mb if i installed the same > software in debian. The only 2 drawbacks right now are lack of udev > support and wpa (without skytones weird proprietary wifiup and > wireless-lan software). > > Cheers. > > On 3/14/11, Daniel Glöckner <daniel...@gmx.net> wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 09:16:08AM +0100, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > >> I'm not so concerned about > >> sound, which I never used on 2.4 too since with FPU emulation it is not > >> possible to play MP3s > > > > You don't need an FPU to play MP3s: > > http://www.underbit.com/products/mad/ > > > > And if you prefer Vorbis, there is the Tremor decoder, which is used > > f.ex. by mplayer. > > > > Daniel > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mipsbook-devel mailing list > > Mipsbook-devel@linuxtogo.org > > http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mipsbook-devel > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mipsbook-devel mailing list > Mipsbook-devel@linuxtogo.org > http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mipsbook-devel
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