Re: sun4c audio in 4.5

On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 01:19:18PM -0500, Todd T. Fries wrote:
> Penned by Alexandre Ratchov on 20090516 20:14.16, we have:
> | On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 01:57:40PM -0400, Brandon Applegate wrote:
> | > On Sat, 16 May 2009, Todd T. Fries wrote:
> | >
> | >> For kicks, does anything change if you type this prior to running
> | >> mpg123 with no special flags:
> | >>
> | >>  aucat -l -m play
> | >>
> | >
> | > Thanks for the quick reply.  I should have included some more output in 
> | > my original post, so here is what I'm getting:
> | >
> | > # aucat -l -m play &
> | > [1] 18912
> | > # aucat: <default>: can't open device
> | >
> | 
> | i guess the device is ``amd7930'', which is mulaw only.
> | Is it?
> | 
> | (sndio doesn't expose non-linear encodings)
> | 
> | -- Alexandre
> 
> Could you perhaps explain how this helps make things work again?
> 

i'm preparing a diff for this, it will be ready in few
minutes ;)

> Do you plan to change sndio or ?
> 

it's the only device that is mulaw-only, so it's simpler
to fix it in kernel to support linear encoding.

-- Alexandre