On Tue, 2002-08-06 at 01:28, matthew yee-king wrote: > > > 2) Does somebody know how to configure the sound card of a powerbook > > (pismo in my case) ? > > > > playing /usr/share/sounds/startup2.wav > > > > give > > > > sox: Can't open output file 'dev/dsp': No such device > > > > try the alsa drivers: > > http://www.alsa-project.org/ > > i'm using them on my powerbook g4. they should work fine for your machine. > once you've installed them, be aware theres a little bug where you have to adjust the > mic boost level on the (alsa)mixer to unmute the audio. > > think they should be available through apt-get as well? but you might get the inferior > 0.5 version of alsa in the stable distro. you really want the 0.9 version. Or he could just run "modprobe dmasound_pmac" and add "dmasound_pmac" to /etc/modules, so that the driver gets loaded at every startup. That's much easier, and the DMA Sound OSS driver works just fine on a Pismo. There's no need to go with ALSA, when there's a simpler solution there. Cheers -- /Bastien Nocera http://hadess.net
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