Need some testing...

[Bill Fink]

Hi Samuel,

On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Samuel Rydh wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 10:59:36AM -0500, Bill Fink wrote:
> > Hi Samuel,
> > 
> > On Wed, 5 Feb 2003, Bill Fink wrote:
> > > > 	- Audio support in OSX
> > 
> > This basically works, but the audio is somewhat staticy, and very
> > noticeably with higher resolution QuickTime files (which work great
> > under MOL OS9).
> 
> OS X has very severe real-time demands. This makes the audio very 
> sensitive to linux side activity. In particular,
> 
> - The mol X11 video driver and audio do not mix well (I'll
> will see if I can fix this).
> 
> - Make sure DMA is turned on for the harddisk (and make sure
> irqs are unmasked)

Yup, both are set.

> - It is possible to lower the sound rate from 44kHz to 22kHz
> by adding 'max_sound_rate: 22050' to /etc/mol/molrc.osx. This
> lessens the real-time requirements somewhat.

This helped a lot.  It eliminated the static with the lower resolution
QuickTime movie trailers, and reduced it significantly with the higher
res ones.

> > Also as a minor thing, there's no longer a start boing with OS9.
> 
> I haven't re-enabled it yet.
> 
> > > > 	- UFS boot support (OSX)
> > > > 	- Significant OSX optimizations
> > > > 	- Improved audio quality in classic MacOS (mp3:s no longer
> > > > 	  skips, playing QT movies from the harddisk works better)
> > 
> > Audio with OS9 is very good.
> > 
> > > > Semi-new features (that have been in the developer tree for a while):
> > > > 
> > > > 	- Ejectable CD support (OSX and classic)
> > 
> > This didn't work for me with OSX.  It worked fine with OS9.
> 
> Did you add 'blkdev: /dev/cdrom -cd' to /etc/mol/molrc.osx?
> This will be the default soon...

Good call.  Somehow I had used "-rw" on the /dev/cdrom entry instead
of "-cd".  It works fine now with OSX as well.

> > Also, I should mention that I first accidentally had an audio CD
> > inserted when I started MOL (OS9), and it confused MOL such that
> > the CD didn't show up in MOL and I couldn't eject the CD from the
> > Linux side.
> 
> OK... I'll fix that.

						-Thanks

						-Bill