esound for PPC

Tom Rini trini at kernel.crashing.org
Tue Oct 12 13:20:26 EST 1999


On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, Eric Dorland wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 11, 1999 at 01:09:12PM -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
> > 
> > On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, Eric Dorland wrote:
> > 
> > > It appears I spoke to soon about sound working perfectly. Whenever esd plays
> > > a 16bit wav file, the sound plays at about half speed. Ugg. At least its not
> > > static anymore. I'm going to see if I can track down why this is happening
> > > (maybe its some on-the-fly endianess swaping slowing it down), but I don't
> > > know sound code all that well, so anyone that does, please lend a hand.
> > 
> > Elliot has the old set of patches ported up to 0.2.15, and hopefully will
> > be in 0.2.16 :)
> 
> Which old set of patches? I've tried Elliot's 0.2.15 and it doesn't fix 
> the playing of 16bit sounds. BTW, you need a patch to be able to compile 
> Elliot's 0.2.15. It seems the configure file assumes that a ppc linux is 
> MkLinux, and uses its driver instead of OSS. It appears its MkLinux that has 
> the little-endian sound driver, not linuxppc. Anyway the attached patch 
> changes removes the MkLinux testing (I don't know how to tell the
> difference), and just uses OSS.

The patches which exist in a copy of 0.2.14, hence any working esound.
They did not make it into 0.2.15, but will hopefully be in 0.2.16.  It
does tell from MkL & Linux/PPC, and it also makes everything work "ok"
again.

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Tom Rini (TR1265)
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