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 1HFZRQ-0002cO-FL for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 09 Feb 2007 17:21:44 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l19HLMqO025009; Fri, 9 Feb 2007 17:21:22 GMT Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.235]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l19HLKIT025004 for ; Fri, 9 Feb 2007 17:21:21 GMT Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i30so1453970wxd for ; Fri, 09 Feb 2007 09:21:20 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=JCM2jJ8BJWL96xaVB6lBGTlf4cKLAiDy6z7vwNoSgJJ8RLfBU9WYEkY1L0MBlyFA0X7kTpsqDi2jXSS4Pq7932825AjvlGA5gjwKEiYqpSkGQnrnLl5XKagQrHAO4XRoYMwsmrbmstgjEwwJfp/vNwx9W7Xe+TVjnMkFvc8JFCs= Received: by 10.90.105.20 with SMTP id d20mr12890823agc.1171041680540; Fri, 09 Feb 2007 09:21:20 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.90.119.4 with HTTP; Fri, 9 Feb 2007 09:21:20 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 12:21:20 -0500 From: "Alex Deucher" To: gentoo-mips@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-mips] O2 Sound and Misc Stuff. [Was LiveCD RC6] In-Reply-To: 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=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <45B4C1D5.2040905@gentoo.org> <45CC1ABA.2070900@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: d38cf3c8-ce9e-469c-9420-8305a023a1e5 X-Archives-Hash: 1b5792dc32f7edd6e1e8a983702cd2f1 On 2/9/07, J. Scott Kasten wrote: > > 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. Be careful. I tried to use JFS on some sparc boxes, and ran into some subtle bugs that no one seemed to be able to solve that led to filesystem corruption: things like disappearing/reappearing files and directories. On the other hand I've had no problems with JFS on AMD64 or x86. Alex > > 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 > > -- gentoo-mips@gentoo.org mailing list