On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Bernd Sieker wrote:

> > 
> > It detects an audio device when booting:
> > 
> > audio0 at vraiu0: half duplex
> > 
> > And it sort-of works :-)  esd doesn't like it, at least not completely.  I
> > get just weird static.  I can use sox to play a .au file.  I bet I can get
> > it to play wav files, too.  I'm still working on mp3 :-)
> 
> That sounds promising. Considering that even my fairly-mainstream
> x86 Laptop has no audio support in NetBSD.
> 
> What does NetBSD's own "audioplay" do?

Heh... I didn't even know NetBSD came with an audioplay command :-)

>  If you can play .au (8kHz, 8-bit u-law?), then you can probably pipe
> mpg123 output through sox to convert it to a suitable format.
> 
> > 
> > The mouse still does not work on the Z50.  Last time I tried to build from
> > CVS, and use Greg Hughe's patches for the mouse, I failed miserably.
> 
> I had no problem whatsoever to patch the 1.5.3_RC1 (and also earlier
> 1.5.3_ALPHA) sources to use Greg's track point driver. It has some
> minor glitches, sometimes the cursor jumps back or gets false button
> presses, but no panics, and overall works nicely.

Did you have *any* problems compiling the kernel?  Last time I tried to
compile a kernel from CVS, on my NetBSD 1.5 hpcmips system, I kept running
into problem after problem.  Hopefully building from this snapshot will go
much more smoothly.

> > 
> > And, interesting enough, typing reboot doesn't actually reboot the entire
> > machine, just NetBSD :-)  It shuts down, and reloads the kernel, without
> > the side trip through Windows CE land.  Obviously you can still shutdown
> > and reboot into Windows CE if you want to.
> 
> Hm, here it reboots the machine and I have to go through the WinCE
> round trip. (which, luckily, can be shortened by holding shift, and
> there is no touch screen to be calibrated.)

Are you using this snapshot?

Adam