mrheat Posted July 31, 2006 Share Posted July 31, 2006 my shuttle sb86i has ALC 880 on ICH6. my stock 10.4.6 applehda.kext works when coming out of windows with 2 ch out. on cold boot no output device. willing to help for testing on ICH6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
james2mart Posted July 31, 2006 Author Share Posted July 31, 2006 Back in town. Didn't get a chance to work on the driver while I was gone and won't be able to for a couple days. I got slapped with the responsibility of capturing and editing all of the video for the church trip I was on, so I'll finish that and get back to work. As to mrheat, This is for SigmaTel chips. Anything else is way way far away in the future. Sorry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BryanP Posted July 31, 2006 Share Posted July 31, 2006 thanks for the update and your work on this, james Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shane Lu Posted July 31, 2006 Share Posted July 31, 2006 Good work, and I can't wait for a driver! Mac isn't complete with an audio player I'm always here for beta testing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquidhippo Posted August 2, 2006 Share Posted August 2, 2006 awesome work so far James, I just found this forum tonight actually, it's good to know that someone is on the case. I was about to have to do it myself, but I'm so slammed with work lately that I haven't had much time to do it. Have you considered starting a sourceforge project here so that perhaps you can get some other people to join in? I certainly wouldn't mind looking it over in my spare time and helping out where I can. Just a thought! and again, thanks for taking the initiative. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
decayed Posted August 3, 2006 Share Posted August 3, 2006 hey james... I just wanted to let you know: even though I don't have a use for the driver you are working on, I absolutely appreciate your effort and tenacity. I'll be the first in line to buy you a pint whenever you finish. Keep up the awesome work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaboofa Posted August 3, 2006 Share Posted August 3, 2006 hey james... I just wanted to let you know: even though I don't have a use for the driver you are working on, I absolutely appreciate your effort and tenacity. I'll be the first in line to buy you a pint whenever you finish. Keep up the awesome work! Second in line. Read the thread Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
james2mart Posted August 3, 2006 Author Share Posted August 3, 2006 Second in line. Read the thread lol sorry to disappoint you guys, but i don't drink... Donations would be gladly welcomed though... you can paypal me at [my_handle_here@cox.net] <- replace "my_handle_here" with james2mart (i did that to avoid bots scanning my email...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bepe86 Posted August 4, 2006 Share Posted August 4, 2006 Sounds good Keep it up, and I will donate you a little something Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazylikeastraw Posted August 4, 2006 Share Posted August 4, 2006 so how is the driver coming along? i poked around on the apple dev site, and read the manual about making audio drivers, but i don't have any time to try my hand at making one (as i leave for college in a week). i greatly appreciate what you're doing, as sound support is the only thing i really need (besides a working wi-fi connection, but i'd honestly rather have sound first ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kujila Posted August 8, 2006 Share Posted August 8, 2006 Might donate after drivers are made ;P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blair78 Posted August 9, 2006 Share Posted August 9, 2006 I will definately donate when the driver is finished. (if that's an incentive to complete it). Great job and thanks for donating all the time you have so far. Blair. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
balivo Posted August 9, 2006 Share Posted August 9, 2006 I will definately donate when is finished too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shane Lu Posted August 10, 2006 Share Posted August 10, 2006 same here!! i can't wait! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oVerload77 Posted August 12, 2006 Share Posted August 12, 2006 Has anyone here tried using FINK to get the linux sound driver to work? I don't know enough about it, but it looks like it might be something that could help? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iNap Posted August 12, 2006 Share Posted August 12, 2006 The way I understand it, Fink's meant more for applications, and it probably isn't close enough to the kernel to handle a driver. Still, I'm not that experienced with it either, so it's an idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
james2mart Posted August 12, 2006 Author Share Posted August 12, 2006 I guess there's a chance it could work. I will look into it soon. If someone else has the time, give it a shot! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oVerload77 Posted August 13, 2006 Share Posted August 13, 2006 I was talking to a friend who has been using linux for a while. I mentioned to him how we need to get a working sound driver. He said that there is some linux software called Alsa, that he thinks would work for sound, if we ran it through fink first. I'm going to try and get him to through it with me on my 9400. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bengringo Posted August 14, 2006 Share Posted August 14, 2006 I know that the 9200 sigmatel works in freebsd and that is part of the osx kernel. could we right the sound drivers in there into the osx kernel? just a thought. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arlequin Posted August 14, 2006 Share Posted August 14, 2006 ALSA is part of the Linux kernel. MacOSX kernel come from NetBSD. Using Fink will not help in any way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
james2mart Posted August 14, 2006 Author Share Posted August 14, 2006 Why will Fink not work? It is made for doing Linux appz to OS X. Although I doubt it has what it needs to work with IOKit, so it probably will not work with drivers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edy_42 Posted August 15, 2006 Share Posted August 15, 2006 Alsa consists of both userland tools and kernel mode drivers. Now, according to what I have read about Fink, it is a port of GNU utilities, and other utilities commonly used in GNU/Linux systems (it uses the Debian package management system to handle dependencies, and the port is handled by a recompilation of the source). So, fink could definitely not be used to port kernel mode drivers, since the drivers are not written like usermode programs (they are designed specifically for the operating system that they are written). A lot of the code from the linux driver can be used in the mac os x driver, or at least the process used to interact with the hardware can be used to implement the mac os x driver. I know that the 9200 sigmatel works in freebsd and that is part of the osx kernel. could we right the sound drivers in there into the osx kernel? just a thought. MacOS X is not exactly FreeBSD. It uses the *BSD userland tools, but the kernel is actually a Mach kernel (a type of microkernel) that is derived from the one of the BSD kernels. There is a pretty significant difference in the way FreeBSD drivers are written and the way MacOS X drivers are written. However, you could port a FreeBSD driver just as you could port a Linux driver-- keeping the same algorithms while modifying the interface/code so that it works with the Mac OS X kernel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclonefr Posted August 15, 2006 Share Posted August 15, 2006 james2smart will ur driver support the 9225? im using a vaio SZ2XP notebook... the id is 7661 thanx hope u'll be done with it soon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bengringo Posted August 15, 2006 Share Posted August 15, 2006 How would someone go about porting freebsd drivers os to OS X. If we could find a way to do this it could solve many driver issues OSX86 is currently having. Any idea on how long it would take? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edy_42 Posted August 16, 2006 Share Posted August 16, 2006 you would port a driver the same way you would port anything else: changing large (or small) portions of code to make the program/driver work on a new system. THere isn't really an automated way to do this. Now, from what I've read, Mac OS X drivers are written in C++, so that could change the way the drivers would have to be ported (most drivers for most operating systems are written in C). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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