esound and 2.2's dmasound

[Hollis R Blanchard]

With the latest versions of esound (0.2.22), xmms (1.2.4), and running
kernel.org's 2.2.18 final, I was *still* getting the
sound-plays-way-too-fast bug, in xmms, mpg123, and myth2 (all of which use
esound).

Following Henry Worth's emails from a while back, I tried the 2.4 dmasound
backport (http://www.drfruitcake.com/linux/linuxppc.html). It mostly
applied (one Makefile needed a little tweaking).

With dmasound built in, nothing happened at all. /dev/sndstat said no such
file or directory, mixers wouldn't work, and AWACS didn't even show up in
the interrupt list.

However, with dmasound as a module (and 'alias sound dmasound_pmac' in
/etc/modules.conf), everything (including esound) works perfectly.

So:
- 2.2.18 final and esound still don't play well together
- the 2.4 dmasound backport doesn't work compiled in (and probably could be
  updated for 2.2.18)

-Hollis


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