Version 0.2 of the ALSA HAL2 driver
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Thanks to Matthias Kleinschmidt for testing.

Things it can do:
o Playback
o Perfect audio quality
o 4,000 - 48,000 Hz
o 16 bit
o Little endian / Big endian
o Stereo / Mono

Things it can't do (yet) and bugs:
o Recording does not sound any good
o Mixing (I'll wait for Jaroslav's new interface)
o There are no spinlocks (not needed if you're not trying to record)

If you still want to try to play some music go through the following steps:

1. Get a binary linux-indy-sound kernel from
   ftp://ftp.linux.sgi.com/pub/linux/mips/test

2. Install the ALSA and mpg123 precompiled RPM packages you get from
   ftp://ftp.linux.sgi.com/pub/linux/mips/ALSA.

4. You will know have to create the ALSA sound devices. Run the script
   snddevices in /usr/doc/alsa-driver-0.3.0-pre5.

5. Insert the modules, in the order: snd.o snd-pcm.o snd-timer.o
   snd-pcm1.o snd-mixer.o snd-pcm1-oss.o snd-hal2.o snd-card-hal2.o

6. Play audio!

7. Tell me (ulfc@thepuffingroup.com) if it works!

/ Ulf