Hi,

my Indy is running a Debian Woody with a 2.4.16-kernel. I'd like the box
to play some sound using ALSA. Debian does not provide kernel modules
for sound support for the above combination. Has anyone succesfully
compiled a module for this kind of  box?

Any suggestion is welcome.
Regards
Jörg

as far as i know, there is still no sound support for the indy's. your
best bet is to get on the mips mailing list - there you will find
people working on the MIPS linux port in general was well as debian on
indy guys specifically.

http://oss.sgi.com/mips/mail.html

Hi,

I just postet a similar question in an other place.
Here are the essentials:

I got the sources for the 2.4.17 kernel and a patch for the Indy over at
debian.org and compiled the kernel and modules (to ages). This source
includes the module HAL2 which supports the sound chip of the Indy.

After instalation the box would 'panic' with
    Illegal f_magic number 0x7f45, expected MIPSELMAGIC or MIPSEBMAGIC.
    Unable to load linux: ``linux'' is not a valid file to boot.

I found out that the older versions of the PROM don't support ELF
binaries. So I had to convert to ECOF binaries using elf2ecoff.

You can find more informations on this (and most other questions on
MIPS/Linunx) on the most excellent page
http://web.inter.nl.net/users/schnecke/mips/mips-howto.html

Now it's und running making some noise ;-)

Regards
Sven