Re: Sound in g4

[Mike S <michael_six@users.sourceforge.net>]

Martin Habets wrote:

> With ALSA/Debian I have the issue that I have to add snd to
> /etc/modules manually. /etc/init.d/alsa won't do anything
> otherwise, as /proc/asound does not exist.
>
> Not sure if the init script is from debian or alsa. This happens
> on all hardware platforms. In your case, a
> modprobe snd-powermac
> should load the sound driver for you. Run alsamixer to unmute it.
>
> Martin
>
> On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 02:30:51AM +0000, Mike S wrote:
>  
>
> > this is probably a totally newbie question, but I have just switched to 
> > debian from ubuntu, and am working on a self compiled 2.6.11 upstream 
> > kernel.  I compiled all the sound stuff as modules, but I do not know 
> > what file to edit to load them, or even how to start.  KDE reports no 
> > /dev/dsp on startup, and when I run lsmod it shows no snd or anything 
> > like that, so could someone point me in the right direction to start 
> > setting up sound on this thing?
> >
> > --Mike S
> > if specs are needed this is a G4 Dual 450 (Gigabit Ethernet model) and I 
> > am not sure what the sound card is.
> >    
>
>
>  
I thank you martin, that cracked it, atleast for now, haven't restarted 
the computer yet, but I did modprobe snd-powermac, and that loaded all 
the snd modules, and then I changes the group id of /dev/dsp so that my 
user's group had permission to it, and long story short three logout's 
later kde finally uttered sound on startup and did not give me the 
/dev/dsp not found or /dev/dsp (permission Denied) errors.  looks like 
there's a lot of subtle little differences in debian and ubuntu, as it 
looks like I am going to have to change o lot of group id's just so I 
can access them without being root.

Thanks again,
--Mike S