Jean-Pierre Thanks for the report. Which package (full name please) did you apply the playback (64) patch too. MarvS On Feb 16, 2008 2:43 AM, Jean-Pierre Demailly <Jean-Pierre.Demailly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi: > > Thanks to your previous help, I have been able to get my winmodem > Smartlink SM56 to work at least partially on my x86_64 laptop > (with a 64 bit kernel). However, some tweaks were necessary : > > 1. The slmodem package fails to compile properly from scratch because > * the Makefile forgets to uses the -m32 option to force compilation > in 32 bit (necessary because of needed ld with 32 bit blobs) > * the slamr driver which is pure 32 bit cannot be compiled on a > a 64 bit machine, and so the Makefile should disable this > automatically. I enclose a Makefile which includes this test. > > 2. After tweaking as in 1), compilation of slmodemd in 32bit mode is > successful and I could call > slmodem -c FRANCE --alsa hw:0,6 > (as this seems to be appropriate in my case). > Then device /dev/ttySL0 is created > > However, when trying using to use the modem, I first got an error > period size 48 not supported by playback (64) > (already reported by many people). Things improved a lot by using > the "Hell labs patch" enclosed - it seems that a test fax (class 1) > was succesfully sent. Maybe the change should be implemented in the > next iteration of slmodemd and enabled/disabled through the use of an > ad hoc option. > > I also got French Minitel (V23 mode) almost working - the initializing > escape code is probably still not OK as the echo of keys was garbled. > In addition, there is not sound on dialing - maybe the hell labs patch > simply disables error after failure of using ALSA. Alsa support > obviously has to be fixed for SM56 on 64 bit machines. > > Here is where I am - it seems pretty close to be made to work, but not > there yet ! > > Regards, > Jean-Pierre Demailly >
