Re: [AD] PATCH: sound does not work with linux on PPC or other big endian.

[Elias Pschernig <elias@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 2006-02-26 at 14:39 +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm the maintainer of several allegro using packages in Fedora-extras, 
> as I'm currently working on a new package about which I had some doubts 
> if it would work on PPC I asked on the fedora-extras-list if some PPC 
> users could test it. one PPC user was kind enough todo so. This tested 
> resulted in the finding of a endianness bug in allegro.
> 
> More specificly in the digital audio alsa driver of allegro, which is 
> the default driver used by allegro, thus an error in this driver 
> normally results in no sound being available at all. The tester didn't 
> have any sound with lacewing, overgod and the game he was testing for me.
> 
> The attached patch fixes this endianness bug in allegro. The problem is 
> that it first sets format to NE (Native Endian)* and then checks if 
> format is either 8 bit or LE (Little Endian) which although it works 
> fine on LE machines will of course fail on BE.
> 
> * unless 8 bit sound has been specified in allegrorc .
> 

Thanks! Committed to SVN.

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Elias Pschernig