Re: Sound on Tanzania, and life with Apple Open Firmware
On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 10:23:33AM -0600, Mack Allison wrote:
> Sounds working just great on my Tanzania/4400, I'm just curious. On the
> MB, I see a Crystal chip that looks like it should be sound, but no such
> device shows up on the PCI bus. In fact, I haven't been able to find
> any sign of having a sound device.
>
> But the dmasound driver loads, and it plays music *better than it did in
> it's life as a Macintosh. (???)
>
> Does anyone know how this works?
>
> Another troubling bit...I am still having to use BootX to boot, which
> impedes this machines usefulness as a headless machine. Is there a
> limitation in MacOS Open Firmware similar to Suns, which requires a
> multisync monitor to run (I am using a 640x480 Trinitron/Apple.) I can
> barely read the screen when I boot Open Firmware, it's distorted and
> flickers, and the Keyboard doesn't work. This would be fine, except
> that I get the 'default catch' thing, and the workaround I've found
> requires interaction. Arrg.
What's the workaround? If it just works the second time, maybe you
need the disk-spinup time patch in OF.
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