Hi, Jonathan Riddell wrote:
I was wondering if any progress had been made regarding this bug: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=88691 Although the bug report is about splay it appears to be more fundamental and affects anything going through /dev/dsp, which includes CDs (with xmms-cd-read) and .wav files. It may be that it only afects certain types of iMac as other people seem to have sound working. Someone mentioned an endian problem, is there a way to change the endianess it expects maybe?
The newer iMacs (including my iMac DV summer 2000) falsely claim they support both big and little endian input. I submitted this bug to Iain Sandoe (who's maintaining the dmasound_* drivers), but he probably is just short on time to make a work-around this problem. This bug is already worked-around for the Pismo. As I have the hardware, I'll try to look at it soon, and submit the fix to BenH and on linuxppc-dev. In the end, this is definitely a kernel problem.
Cheers