Re: ibook2

[Michel Dänzer <daenzer@debian.org>]

On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 22:46, Heinz Kirchmann wrote: 
> Hardware:
>    ibook2, G3 800, 12"
> OS:
>    2.4.21-ben2
>    (from rsync 09.07.2003), compiled with standard .config (unchanged
>     version from rsync)
> 
> Problem 1:
> I can't record anything with my soundcard. Playing is no problem. I 
> checked and found out that a call
>    open("/dev/dsp", O_RDONLY);
> fails, but
>    open("/dev/dsp", O_WRONLY);
> succeeds.
> 
> Some programs (like audacity) will therefore leave my soundcard in a bad 
> state: I am not able to play any sound afterwards, either.

This is a bug in the dmasound driver. I recently started tracking it
down but got distracted again. Maybe you can do it? :)


> Problem 2:
> I would like to drive the external VGA connector for mirroring, but I 
> didn't manage to enable it using m3mirror:

Can you try xserver-xfree86-dri-trunk 2003.07.25-1 without Option
"UseFBDev" and see how it goes?


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