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I've seen the old driver patch you refer to floating around out there. |
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After I've done my USB and firewire experiments, I wouldn't mind taking a |
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look at this to see how bad it is. An SGI without sound is kind of like a |
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car without wheels.... |
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Over all, I've been quite impressed. Most things that I try seem to be |
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generally working. I've already succeeded in building the box up as a |
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general desktop system. X11, WindowMaker, transparent Xterms, NLS, DDD, |
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gvim, GIMP, Firefox 2.0, QT, openGL (some GL works, some crash the X |
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server), XFIG, gv (pdf and ps viewer), xv, gtk, imagemagik, tetex, |
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ghostscript, etc... |
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I've also done some work to verify IPv6. The kernel module loads, the |
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machine auto addresses, and the 6-to-4 driver loads. I still need to |
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rebuild some userland with USE=ipv6 to fully check it out, but I'm not |
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expecting any surprises at this point. |
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The PPTP and PPP-MPPE vpn support is working. I've spent entire days |
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plugged into my work VPN during my work from home days using the O2 as an |
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X console and VPN access node. No surprises here. |
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The file system chosen for my box is IBM's JFS. In work life, I've been |
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doing embedded stuff with JFS for a couple years now. I first tried it |
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with gentoo and mips under kernel 2.13 about a year and a half ago. And |
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under 2.17.10-mips, it is still proving to be solid and exceptionally well |
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performing as I've emerged about 500 packages in the last couple weeks - |
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no crashes, no oops, no data corruption, rock solid. I know people on |
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non-intel are skeptical of it, but I've been warming up to it a lot and |
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have never seen issues, but I've had issues with reiser that made it |
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unacceptable. There's a lot in terms of performance and features to |
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recommend this file system - assuming stability of course. :) It's |
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definately worthy of consideration when setting up a new non-intel box. |
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Cheers, |
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-S- |
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On Fri, 9 Feb 2007, Kumba wrote: |
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> J. Scott Kasten wrote: |
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>> [1] From looking at other configs there, and having just walked through |
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>> the 2.17.10 config process, it looks like the alsa mips ip32 sound device |
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>> has been disabled. I cannot even select it in 2.17.10. I was wondering |
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>> what the status of this driver was. Judging from submitted configs, it |
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>> looks like people had been enabling it at 2.16 or earlier. |
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> O2 doesn't have a working sound driver. I dunno what the alsa mips thing is, |
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> but it's probably dead code. A few people have, apparently, created a |
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> working sound driver, but they've never released the source, so, it's kinda |
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> like Duke Nukem Forever. |
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> The only known driver was designed in the old 2.5 days and 2.6.1 timeframe, |
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> but attempts to forward port it never do too well. It can be compiled, but |
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> all it does is make ears bleed with static. Someone with an O2, free time, |
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> decent knowledge of sound hardware and kernel development, and a few pots of |
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> coffee needs to step forward and help us get the thing to work. |
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> |
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> --Kumba |
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