Subject: Re: sound device.
To: Adrian McMenamin <adrian@mcmen.demon.co.uk>
From: None <monthos@mx3.org>
List: port-dreamcast
Date: 05/15/2002 23:07:43
On Wed, 15 May 2002, Adrian McMenamin wrote:

> On Wednesday 15 May 2002 9:31 pm, Mike Miller wrote:
> > >Has there been any attempt yet to get the dreamcast
> > >working for the DC ?
> > >
> > >I think it could make a kick ass little OGG/MP3 appliance.
> >
> > Actually, there are a number of small projects to do this for ogg/mp3
> > on CDR over at:
> >
> > http://www.boob.co.uk/usertools.html
> >
> > I don't think any directly support the BBA, but you might be able to
> > use the web browser software to connect to a server and get streaming
> > audio or something similar...
> >
> > I know there was a prototype audio driver that somebody got working
> > under linux a while back, but I don't recall if it ever got past
> > alpha phase...
> >
> Well, I wrote it and it certainly got past the alpha phase :->
> 
> It works fine, it could be better - if soemone reliably hacked the DC's G2 DMA 
> - but will play MP3s without any problem.
> 
> I offered to assist someone/anyone on this list write a netbsd driver but was 
> told to more or less get lost -----
> 
> "The dreamcast project itself was necessarily finite. Once the machine
> support was written, what more were you expecting?"
> 
> However, seeing that this project might have moved from the past imperfect to 
> the present tense again my offer still stands. Anybody want to take me up on 
> it?
> 
> Adrian
> 
> 
> 

my compile alwasy fails for soem reason, i only played with it for about 5
minutes though. i had the oss source, the sg-linux kernel source and
whatnot, i was booting from the cd root filesystem. any ideas?