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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 |
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> device has been disabled. I cannot even select it in 2.17.10. I was |
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> wondering what the status of this driver was. Judging from submitted |
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> configs, it 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 working |
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sound driver, but they've never released the source, so, it's kinda like Duke |
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Nukem Forever. |
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The only known driver was designed in the old 2.5 days and 2.6.1 timeframe, but |
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attempts to forward port it never do too well. It can be compiled, but all it |
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does is make ears bleed with static. Someone with an O2, free time, decent |
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knowledge of sound hardware and kernel development, and a few pots of coffee |
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needs to step forward and help us get the thing to work. |
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> [2] What is the root password for the RC6 CD? :) |
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> I noticed in the RC6 comments that no-one had tested on the Indigo2, |
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> IP22 arch. I have a headless I2 (formerly extreeme) and will test boot |
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> it sometime this comming weekend. |
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There's isn't one available. LiveCDs run pwgen to auto-scramble the password on |
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bootup, so you have to use sudo to change it. |
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I2 IP22 testing is kinda limited, since my only R4400 motherboard just up and |
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died for no reason. So it's now an IP28 machine (that I haven't managed to boot |
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for a few months now). Plus it and Indy R4K are the only mips3-class machines |
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we still support, and the Indy R4K series have always been a gamble. Especially |
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the R4600. |
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> [3] Has anyone tried Firewire in the O2 PCI slot? I have an ADS |
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> Technologies combo Firewire/USB 2.0 PCI card comming soon. This uses an |
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> ALI chipset. I pulled the USB config from the RC6 CD kernel. I suspect |
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> it won't be much to make the USB portion work. It will be interesting |
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> to see about the firewire. Fortunately Firewire chipsets are more |
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> standardized than USB. I'll report back when I know something here. |
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I haven't, but given that USB2 sometimes works better than the onboard scsi (w/ |
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flash drives), it might work. Give it a shot with some common firewire device |
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that hopefully isn't too complicated, and let us know what happens. |
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--Kumba |
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Gentoo/MIPS Team Lead |
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"Such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands |
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do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere." --Elrond |
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