Subject: Re: audio driver [was]Re: Z50 - CF card or Microdrive?
To: None <port-hpcmips@netbsd.org>
From: Bernd Sieker <bsieker@freenet.de>
List: port-hpcmips
Date: 03/26/2002 21:22:48
On 26.03.02, 15:02:46, Adam K Kirchhoff wrote:
> > 
> > What does NetBSD's own "audioplay" do?
> 
> Heh... I didn't even know NetBSD came with an audioplay command :-)

from audioplay(1):

  HISTORY
       The audioplay program was first seen in SunOS 5.  The NetBSD audioplay
       was first made available in NetBSD 1.4.

And, yes, just checked, even NetBSD/hpcmips has an audioplay
command. (And why not ...)

> > 
> > I had no problem whatsoever to patch the 1.5.3_RC1 (and also earlier
> > 1.5.3_ALPHA) sources to use Greg's track point driver. It has some
> > minor glitches, sometimes the cursor jumps back or gets false button
> > presses, but no panics, and overall works nicely.
> 
> Did you have *any* problems compiling the kernel?  Last time I tried to
> compile a kernel from CVS, on my NetBSD 1.5 hpcmips system, I kept running
> into problem after problem.  Hopefully building from this snapshot will go
> much more smoothly.

I use sources cvs updated on the 1.5-branch (i. e. cvs update -dP
-rnetbsd-1-5), which is now called "NetBSD-1.5.3_RC1". I unpacked the
track point driver files and edited the "files" files according to
instruction and it worked on the first attempt. I did not try any
-current snapshot.


-current may be sufficiently different to break building a kernel with
those drivers.

Drivers and instructions are here:

  http://www.student.math.uwaterloo.ca/~gl2hughe/hpcmips/vrdsiu-z50-TrackPoint-20010723A.tar.gz
  http://www.student.math.uwaterloo.ca/~gl2hughe/hpcmips/vrdsiu-instructions-20010808A.txt

Only problem I ever had was when I tried to build a kernel with the xi
network card driver. So I swapped cards and use the Xircom in my
normal laptop, and the 3com card (ep0, which works fine) in the z50.

My real problem compiling a hpcmips-kernel is that I only have 16 MB
RAM and only a 128 MB Compact Flash card, onto which I must also swap
:-(

> 
> Are you using this snapshot?

No, 1.5.3_RC1, sorry if I confused anybody about the version I was
using.

> 
> Adam
> 

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Bernd Sieker

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