DC Linux question.

JoeBob · Post by **JoeBob** » Fri Dec 07, 2001 11:35 pm

Well, I recentry finished reading the o'reily book on programming linux device drivers and have fooled around with drivers for homemade hardware and all, but I thought maybe I should geta project with a point going. So my question is, do you know of anyone currently working on a sound driver for the DC's sound system for the SH4 port of linux? I haven't researched anything on it yet, the idea just hit me and was wondering if anyone had started such a thing yet?

Sanchez · Post by **Sanchez** » Sat Dec 08, 2001 12:17 pm

I don't think it's been tried yet..... Just realize the sound chip in the DC is not the best by any strech of the imagination and may take some fiddling....

User815 · Post by **User815** » Sat Dec 08, 2001 10:23 pm

Someone is working on a sound driver for dreamcast linux. You can follow his progress on the linuxdc mailing list (archived at http://www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/SourceForge/7848/). He seems to have been working on it time permitting since the end of October. Recently it was just a dummy OSS placeholder, but it seems now it will be ready any day. I bet he would appreciate your help since it will probably take a while to "perfect" it.

JoeBob · Post by **JoeBob** » Sat Dec 08, 2001 11:17 pm

Well, I was just looking for something to work on on my own, but maybe I'll check out what he's done so far... Or maybe I could find some other hardware to write a driver for, but there really isn't much left asside from the PowerVR 2 chip... hmmm... A native Xserver would be much easier then a GL implementation :)

User815 · Post by **User815** » Sat Dec 08, 2001 11:25 pm

Or maybe I could find some other hardware to write a driver for, but there really isn't much left ....

How about a driver for the seaman microphone?

mantis · Post by **mantis** » Sun Feb 03, 2002 11:13 pm

Hey Joebob how have your linuxdc adventures been? have you got a lot of things working?