Subject: Re: mac mini sound driver
To: Marco Trillo <marcotrillo@gmail.com>
From: Matthew Wala <mattwala@gmail.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 11/25/2006 13:31:09
On 11/25/06, Marco Trillo <marcotrillo@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 11/24/06, Matthew Wala <mattwala@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have an earlier model of the Mac Mini running 3.1 which I work with
> > KDE on.  I have only been succesfully able to get sound working with
> > the awacs driver.  How can I get KDE's sound system to work properly?
> > I tried configuring KDE's sound control panel, but testing the audio
> > only results in the most terrible noise I've ever heard.  Individual
> > applications like mpg321 work fine though.
>
> The problem may be that awacs(4) might not be the right driver for the Mac Mini.
>
> The Mac Mini appear to use an "AOAKeyLargo" audio hardware, which
> appears to be a DAC without mixer present. According to a message to
> this mailing list [1], this is supported by an aoa(4) driver available
> at [2]. You can try it and test.
>
> Some also got sound working from snapper(4), although aoa(4) is
> supposed to be the right driver for this hardware.
>
>
> [1] http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-macppc/2005/03/08/0000.html
> [2] http://cvsweb.ki.nu/mef/macppc/sys/arch/macppc/dev/aoa.c
>
> --
>
>      -Marco
>

Aoa.c appears to depend on files which are not in the sources for 3.1.
 Other file dependencies for it have incompatible versions.