esound for PPC

[Elliot Lee]

On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

> I may be wrong, but to me, this looks like a bug in esound. The driver
> seems capable of telling the application about it's current format and
> can be told to change it. If esound does assumptions about the default
> format instead of querying the driver, then esound is broken. (Also
> the driver may have been switched to another format by an application
> before esound takes control anyway. I don't remember which of
> /dev/audio or /dev/dsp will keep the current setting so this may not
> be an issue).
> 
> I agree that the driver lacks a call to query about the native endian,
> so if you really want to, you can add code to esound to force-switch
> to big endian on PowerMac, but at least, it should be fixed to not
> rely on a supposed default setting.

In ftp://people.redhat.com/sopwith/esound-0.2.15.tar.gz (not a final
release), it explicitly sets big-endian mode on big-endian machines, so
things should work a bit better. There is also a related bug in the sound
file playback code fixed, that should help davem's "esdplay plays garbage"
problems. Please try this out and let me know.

-- Elliot					http://developer.gnome.org/
The first thing a programmer needs to admit is that any program is by far
more complex than his own mind. Thats why he partitions it into neat
pieces and avoids complexity.


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