Re: Fw: [Gpe] Re: Headphone and alsa again + Dbus in kernel space...

On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 09:05:19PM +0200, bedboi wrote:
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> Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 21:01:20 +0200
> From: bedboi <bedboi_at_gmx.net>
> To: Siegfried Goericke <siggi_at_dbobjects.de>
> Cc: gpe_at_handhelds.org
> Subject: [Gpe] Re: [H5400-port] Headphone and alsa again + Dbus in kernel space...
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> On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 16:45:08 +0200
> Siegfried Goericke <siggi_at_dbobjects.de> wrote:
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> > I want setup a development environment to compile the kernel and the
> > alsa-modules. I want apply test the code from bedboi.
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> Good to hear. I've decided to put headphone stuff on top of my todo list
> to try dbus capabilities in kernel space. This will involve backporting
> R. Love patch to 2.4.19 kernel (already done by Gianluca, a friend of mine)
> and kdbusd userspace daemon. Then we'll be able to use dbus to setup
> the headphone plug. In other words we just need to send a dbus message
> when the interrupt handler is caught and route it to user space. We can also
> write some fancy gui application to talk to the kernel module, i.e. to choose between
> microphone, headphone and handsets.
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> Any help or advice is greatly appreciated. Stay tuned for updates...

How about words of encouragement (keep going, you're doing great!) and a
promise to try out any kernel patches you submit to the list. I would
really like to have this feature worked out.

E

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