From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HFWwu-0005WZ-76 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 09 Feb 2007 14:42:04 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l19Efk3S023965; Fri, 9 Feb 2007 14:41:46 GMT Received: from smtp102.plus.mail.mud.yahoo.com (smtp102.plus.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.206.235]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l19EfiPf023960 for ; Fri, 9 Feb 2007 14:41:45 GMT Received: (qmail 97433 invoked from network); 9 Feb 2007 14:41:43 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Received:X-YMail-OSG:Date:From:X-X-Sender:To:Subject:In-Reply-To:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=JBjdGkwdnFvlg0meHP617XhOqt6IrKNvmmL1bJVDHw/ofEssSbU5494dDYdidvJJwuVegVMivLOxJT1DniM2ufMXpAhli2EBXBCJGFsKvprka5CWqt6VCH+PjPXCQPokIwRASOu3wIIIzVWgaLHOUl8SdZKwWK4PrIwbttqViuU= ; Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.254.7?) (jscottkasten@72.185.69.24 with login) by smtp102.plus.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; 9 Feb 2007 14:41:42 -0000 X-YMail-OSG: GI3SMQcVM1k0MepvJdX3MBQe.JYsPj32EPslVGQKBmsWBXoEpxug9hIK1tn5GoD1eMNyrFFR5PADgrTa_B6udD.egqWzBgLXkQBdj2F7cPb54IoH5uOhPBPSBGP20ogcSr9xLjelzXPKJtzleKnW0vPlQ1Fbq_NZ6xIV8KFlUE.FjZ49u090.cnLX_l7 Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 09:24:38 -0500 (EST) From: "J. Scott Kasten" X-X-Sender: jsk@bluefang.tetracon-eng.net To: gentoo-mips@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-mips] O2 Sound and Misc Stuff. [Was LiveCD RC6] In-Reply-To: <45CC1ABA.2070900@gentoo.org> Message-ID: References: <45B4C1D5.2040905@gentoo.org> <45CC1ABA.2070900@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-mips@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-mips@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Archives-Salt: 1c7645cf-a62a-41df-8862-bd1291250f6a X-Archives-Hash: bb0a9ec713e6aff641a5165630e02fc8 I've seen the old driver patch you refer to floating around out there. After I've done my USB and firewire experiments, I wouldn't mind taking a look at this to see how bad it is. An SGI without sound is kind of like a car without wheels.... Over all, I've been quite impressed. Most things that I try seem to be generally working. I've already succeeded in building the box up as a general desktop system. X11, WindowMaker, transparent Xterms, NLS, DDD, gvim, GIMP, Firefox 2.0, QT, openGL (some GL works, some crash the X server), XFIG, gv (pdf and ps viewer), xv, gtk, imagemagik, tetex, ghostscript, etc... I've also done some work to verify IPv6. The kernel module loads, the machine auto addresses, and the 6-to-4 driver loads. I still need to rebuild some userland with USE=ipv6 to fully check it out, but I'm not expecting any surprises at this point. The PPTP and PPP-MPPE vpn support is working. I've spent entire days plugged into my work VPN during my work from home days using the O2 as an X console and VPN access node. No surprises here. The file system chosen for my box is IBM's JFS. In work life, I've been doing embedded stuff with JFS for a couple years now. I first tried it with gentoo and mips under kernel 2.13 about a year and a half ago. And under 2.17.10-mips, it is still proving to be solid and exceptionally well performing as I've emerged about 500 packages in the last couple weeks - no crashes, no oops, no data corruption, rock solid. I know people on non-intel are skeptical of it, but I've been warming up to it a lot and have never seen issues, but I've had issues with reiser that made it unacceptable. There's a lot in terms of performance and features to recommend this file system - assuming stability of course. :) It's definately worthy of consideration when setting up a new non-intel box. Cheers, -S- On Fri, 9 Feb 2007, Kumba wrote: > J. Scott Kasten wrote: >> >> [1] From looking at other configs there, and having just walked through >> the 2.17.10 config process, it looks like the alsa mips ip32 sound device >> has been disabled. I cannot even select it in 2.17.10. I was wondering >> what the status of this driver was. Judging from submitted configs, it >> looks like people had been enabling it at 2.16 or earlier. > > O2 doesn't have a working sound driver. I dunno what the alsa mips thing is, > but it's probably dead code. A few people have, apparently, created a > working sound driver, but they've never released the source, so, it's kinda > like Duke Nukem Forever. > > The only known driver was designed in the old 2.5 days and 2.6.1 timeframe, > but attempts to forward port it never do too well. It can be compiled, but > all it does is make ears bleed with static. Someone with an O2, free time, > decent knowledge of sound hardware and kernel development, and a few pots of > coffee needs to step forward and help us get the thing to work. > > --Kumba -- gentoo-mips@gentoo.org mailing list