Dear Tobias: I know that it is selfish of me to use all of yours and other's hard work in writing these programs, however, one must pick battles to fight; my sense of software and programming is nill and my knowledge of troubleshooting hardware is somewhat bumbling at best.
Therefore, I have left my programming for others. I am not able to (perhaps willing) to devote myself to the trial and error process of learning software languages, nor is it my aptitude. It's just that this community is so close to having a complete support for nubus ppc machines that one can almost taste it. Until you came along with the miboot cd idea, it was a very difficult process for the average person to even contemplate installing linux on these abandoned old computers. Hats off to you sir, and thanks for the offer to teach me what might get me killed by my spouse and children were I to take the time to learn. (yes I know, a little whimpy on my part) Vito --- Tobias Netzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Vito, > > I searched the web and didn't find any 16 bit PCMCIA > (not CardBus) > audio cards. > If there was one it could be made to work - provided > there already is a > driver for the sound chip that the card uses. > And it MUST NOT use DMA - the PB 1400 doesn't > support DMA. > And this is VERY unlikely - to find a sound card > that doesn't use DMA. > > The internal sound chip in the PB is a quite good > thing - and for that > same chip there already are drivers in the kernel; > one only has to find > out two things: > - if the registers are in the same locations as for > example the AWACS > in the NuBus PDM machines - if not find them > - how to transfer the sound data (the PDMs use a DMA > controller while > the PBs have to use buffers provided by the I/O > controller) > > I don't want to take the time (a few weeks up to > months) that would be > necessary to get that thing working. > But didn't you (Vito) ever think of writing the > driver yourself? > I could help you to progress soon - I know how to > patch the kernel and > I also know how to find hardware registers (my > knowledge is very > limited and just what I have learned within one year > - but my knowledge > will save you that year). > There is only one point that I forgot: you have to > be able to > understand C programs... > > It would like very much to see that there are others > that work on > improving the NuBus PB support. > > > Tobias > > > Am 31.05.2006 um 21:40 schrieb Vito: > > > Hello All: > > > > Has anybody gotten a pcmcia 16bit sound card to > > generate sound for the powerbook 1400 under Deb > PPC? > > Do you think that it might be possible? > > > > Sound is a big deal for me, as I like booting to > Mac > > OS9 > > in order to use internet radio, and or watch video > > clips or play CDs with sound. > > > > Thx, > > > > Vito > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam > protection around > > http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > All the advantages of Linux Managed > Hosting--Without the Cost and Risk! > > Fully trained technicians. The highest number of > Red Hat > > certifications in > > the hosting industry. Fanatical Support. Click to > learn more > > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel? > > cmd=lnk&kid=107521&bid=248729&dat=121642 > > _______________________________________________ > > Nubus-pmac-users mailing list > > Nubus-pmac-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nubus-pmac-users > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > All the advantages of Linux Managed Hosting--Without > the Cost and Risk! > Fully trained technicians. The highest number of Red > Hat certifications in > the hosting industry. Fanatical Support. Click to > learn more > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=107521&bid=248729&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > Nubus-pmac-users mailing list > Nubus-pmac-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nubus-pmac-users > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------- All the advantages of Linux Managed Hosting--Without the Cost and Risk! Fully trained technicians. The highest number of Red Hat certifications in the hosting industry. Fanatical Support. Click to learn more http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=107521&bid=248729&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Nubus-pmac-users mailing list Nubus-pmac-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nubus-pmac-users
