firewire, printing, and sound on iBook DV 2K

[Phil Fraering <pgf@globalreach.net>]

Hi. I just got around to compiling one of Benh's latest
kernels on my Indigo iBook, and I have had a drastic
improvement in a lot of things.

Using printtool, the Epson 1520 I have will finally print an
ASCII test page. Although it doesn't seem to want to print a
postscript test page or anything else other than straight to
the port. Still, I can print something by cat'ing to
/dev/usb/lp0, which is more than I could do before.

Also, sound almost works. Esd produces beeps when you start
it up. Nothing else seems to work, though, besides system
beeps. wavp produces static.

There's no /dev/audio; that's a kernel compilation error on
my part, I guess?

BTW, I'm using the new devfs. It seems to work fine.

Finally, is anyone else using firewire on the mac? I had
video1394.o compiled as a module, but it won't insert into
the kernel.

Phil
pgf@globalreach.net