Awesome thanks. Will that uImage work with my existing 2.6.24.3-xxxxxxxx-dirty kernel modules? Or did you build the zydas wifi driver into the kernel? If not can you email me or upload the modules for the kernel you linked? I'll fire up my lenny SD card and see if i can get sound working with the older esd. I know nothing about kernel hacking, so it might be easier for me to rebuild anOS to use esd instead of alsa/oss, and rebuild all the audio/video software to use esd also, and remove alsa all together if thats what i need to do to have sound with the current 2.6 kernel.
Otherwise the 2.4 kernel works well. I do miss not having udev to automount devices, but doing it manually isn't that cumbersome. The lack of WPA in 2.4 kernel (cant use skytones proprietary wifiup, wireless-lan etc as it wont work with uclib) isnt a problem for me, but it might be for other people. My problem with lenny is that its old. The software is ancient. Heck my 3MX-Ultra3 rootfs (http://www.hostwork.com/users/matt/alpha400/ ) i built last year has "some" newer software in it. I also dist-upgraded from Lenny to Sid and it worked for the most part (after reverting back to older udev because sids udev needed a newer 2.6 kernel) but it had some oddities after the upgrade. Thats why i'm going the "build my own rootfs" route again currently. Everything in anOS is current, optimized, and unbloated. The problem is cross compiling vs apt-get, but thats part of the fun. :) Cheers. On 3/14/11, Ruben Viets <r_vi...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > 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 > _______________________________________________ Mipsbook-devel mailing list Mipsbook-devel@linuxtogo.org http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mipsbook-devel
