Re: Sound on new iBook (icebook)

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>]

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>I installed successfully Debian sid on my new iBook. Everything works. X11
>was a little hassle but works accelerated, pmu works (only have to switch
>to some tty before going to sleep, otherwise my X screen is garbage). 
>Sound doesn't work. (I expected this.. ;) 

X will work provided that you either 

 - Use the "UseFBDev" option in XF86Config
 - Enable APM emulation in the kernel & create /dev/apm_bios

Or do both :)

>As I am no kernel hacker, at least without greater knowledge in C and
>kernel internals, I would like to ask if someone is working on a
>sounddriver for the "Tumbler" (also known as "AppleTexasAudio" to 
>MacOS X/Darwin) soundchip.

There are people already working on this AFAIK. The main problem for
now is the lack of a working I2C driver for the KeyLargo chipset.

Ben.