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musa wrote:
It is not the onboard sound card that works but the pci sound card.

No worries.
I do know the onboard system works so just waiting for the Amiga drivers.
As for installing Deb, you just would not believe how fast I can mess up a whole system while tinkering around where my fingers probably don't belong. My fingers, my computer.
And, most times I learn something interesting. So it's worth it.

Besides, crashing a computer doesn't hurt as much as crashing my bike.

mechanic wrote: No worries.
I do know the onboard system works so just waiting for the Amiga drivers.
As for installing Deb, you just would not believe how fast I can mess up a whole system while tinkering around where my fingers probably don't belong. My fingers, my computer.
And, most times I learn something interesting. So it's worth it.

Besides, crashing a computer doesn't hurt as much as crashing my bike.

Ha ha that the way you learn

In my effort to get SBLive emu10k1 working with Deb (squeeze 6.0.5) without omitting the PAsemi IOMMU in the kernel build I tried doing some rookie hacking.

The problem is that the memory window is too large for 32 bit DMA that uses 0x7FFFFFFFF for a mask value and initialization of the card fails. What I did is change the value for the iommu_table_iobmap.it_size from 0x80000000 to 0x7FFFFFFFF in the file /arch/powerpc/platforms/pasemi/iommu.c .

It may not be the right thing to do, but it worked. No more DMA window error.

There also seems to be....not a conflict, but a contention for which sound source/card will have use of system resources on squeeze. Not including the intel HDA stuff in the build, the SBLive started to perform flawlessly, even though it was recognized and I was able to tell alsamixer was indeed seeing and able to control it with only the DMA change.

Would be nice to have a kernel guy look at this and some of the other warnings that pop up during build.

My last installation of debian wheezy as I did in a try to get compiz ( i got it) also gave me onboard sound

musa wrote:My last installation of debian wheezy as I did in a try to get compiz ( i got it) also gave me onboard sound

Good to know. Thanks.

I will most likely do more with Linux in the near future.

I have been messing around with getting a grip on Xena and tinkering with some other Amiga software and of course trying to increase my understanding of the X1000 hardware.

Just not enough hours in the day.

Len

mechanic wrote:
Just not enough hours in the day.

Len

Ha ha