Re: Sound on Tanzania, and life with Apple Open Firmware
> 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?
The sound bus comes out of the mac-io ASIC (ohare on your Tanzania). This
ASIC contains various things in one PCI device (interrupt controller,
sound bus, IDE, etc...). The AWACS chip is connected to that bus.
Ben.
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