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Re: list of PowerMac sound hardware TO-DO (help welcome)



On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 16:13:15 +0200 (EET)
Martin-Éric Racine <q-funk@iki.fi> wrote:

MÉR> On Tue, 22 Mar 2005, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
MÉR> 
MÉR> > On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 15:19 +0200, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
MÉR> > > Regarding overall pmac ALSA support, is there a table that
MÉR> > > shows what works and what is broken for each supported sound
MÉR> > > hardware? Such a table could go a long way towards helping
MÉR> > > whoever will pocket the $500 Ubuntu bounty for fixing ALSA for
MÉR> > > all pmac sound hardware variants.
MÉR> > 
MÉR> > Not exactly, you are welcome to start such a table though :)
MÉR> 
MÉR> This is what I have so far:
MÉR> 
MÉR> 				------works y/n------
MÉR> CHIPSET         MODELS          BEEP            ALSA
MÉR> awacs
MÉR> burgundy        G3 iMac         no              no
MÉR> daca
MÉR> keywest
MÉR> tumbler
MÉR> 
MÉR> Other people are quite welcome to contribute additional data,
MÉR> especially which PowerMac models use which chipset.  Tools that can
MÉR> be used to find the info include 'lspci' 'dmesg' and 'hwinfo' -
MÉR> just to name a few.
MÉR> 

G3 iBook (600MHz) reports, awacs chipset. ALSA playback works, but the
microphone doesn't. Beep -- I'm not sure but I don't think it works 
(cat beep.txt where beep.txt is a file with ^G's in it yields silence)


James

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