Re: Mac mini sound woes

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Date: Sun Mar 27 2005 - 21:37:00 EST


On Mon, 2005-03-28 at 03:42 +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 09:42:00AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > suggest I just don't do any control ? Or should I implement a double
> > buffer scheme with software gain as well in the kernel driver ?
>
> I recall to have sometime clicked on volume controls that weren't
> hardware related, I don't pay much attention when stuff works, perhaps
> it was the kde sound system doing it or something like that.
>
> I would suggest doing the D->A only, then adding a basic hack to
> g5 too ;), and then go back to the mini to do the gain emulation in
> kernel space if somebody complains ;). Doing the software emulation
> sounds quite orthogonal to the rest so it can be done later if needed.
>
> Too loud sound is better than no sound.

Will do, of course. As for the G5, yes, I need to work on that too.

Ben.


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