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



On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 02:29:04PM +0000, James Tappin wrote:
> 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)

G3 iBook (600 MHz, 257 (iBook 2 rev. 2) according to /proc/cpuinfo).
awacs chipset. My microphone works, after choosing microphone input
using alsamixer. No beep using alsa.

Frank

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