On Sunday 28 November 2004 12:49, Jeremy Huddleston wrote: > > Yeah, I'm a gentoo dev trollin', but in the spirit of peace, love, and > harmony (pun intended), you guys might want to check out the patches to > alsa-driver-1.0.7 that improve things on sparc (including a snd-ioctl32 > that doesn't lockup)... > > http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/media-sound/alsa-driver/files/als >a-driver-1.0.7-ioctl32.patch-r1 > http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/media-sound/alsa-driver/files/als >a-driver-1.0.7-configure.patch
Thanks a lot, you're not trolling, but highly welcome. I was just about to write some wrappers around audioctl and sox which works quite well on 2.4.27-sparc64 (even artsd works, if set to threaded oss and started together with 'audioctl -w play.pause=0' ) - maybe this has become obsolete with the patches. I'd love it because the Sun-Audio device has a very powerful and warm output. I am a musician / VJ - and I intend to use the Blade for that purpose - well knowing this won't be too easy. Btw. 'harmony' - I have a A9000 715/100, which also used to have a good sound under 2.4 and broke with 2.6 native alsa - I'll have a look for corresponding patches.