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Re: /dev/dsp



Is there a precompiled kernel that I can use for this purpose (making sound work on my G4, on which I've just installed woody new-powermac)? I'm not particularly up for learning how to build a custom one just yet.

Also, can someone point me to instructions on replacing the one I've got now with the new one?

Laurent wrote:

You've got nothing install in there...

Here is my output to give you an idea.

snd-seq-oss            33012   0  (unused)
snd-seq-midi-event      3744   0  [snd-seq-oss]
snd-seq                46540   2  [snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event]
snd-seq-device          5344   0  [snd-seq-oss snd-seq]
snd-pcm-oss            45792   0
snd-mixer-oss          10960   0  [snd-pcm-oss]
snd-powermac           25248   0
snd-pcm                63200   0  [snd-pcm-oss snd-powermac]
snd-timer              12816   0  [snd-seq snd-pcm]
snd 34300 0 [snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-seq-device snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-powermac snd-pcm snd-timer]
soundcore               4712   5  [snd]


Did you compile your kernel with sound support? what happen when you do a modprobe on dmasound_pmac or soundcore (my snd-powermac is for alsa)?

If you want to get alsa compiled, you need to apt-get the alsa-source, untar and read the README to compile the ALSA modules with your kernel.


I am (was :-( running alsa on my ibook, but I run now OSS on my other desktop. Don't fear too much, the problem was popping only with alsaplayer in alsa mode (oss emul was fine.)

Get yourself a kernel tree and compile with sound support first though.

LdS

Thomas Peri wrote:

# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by    Not tainted
rtc                     1792   0  (autoclean)

After seeing your previous post, I'm not sure I *want* alsa installed. I'd rather not be the one to find out whether it does the same thing on a G4. :)

Thanks for any help you can offer though.

Thomas

Laurent wrote:

What's the lsmod output looks like? Do you have ALSA installed? I've been going to the whole mambo of mucking around with sound last night (see previous post), so maybe I can help.

LdS

Thomas Peri wrote:

I've just installed woody new-powermac on my G4, and most things are working nicely. I'm stuck on getting sound to work, though.

Upon login to KDE, I was told that permission had been denied for /dev/dsp. I happily ignored it for the time being, and installed fluxbox, since I don't really care for KDE or Gnome. After I'd been using it for a while, it occurred to me that sound wasn't working here either. So I tried running xmms, and got the following error immediately:

libmikmod.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I don't know whether that's related. But when I tried to play something, I got a message similar to the one KDE had given:

** WARNING **: oss_open(): Failed to open audio device (/dev/dsp): Permission denied

...so I checked permissions:

crw-rw----    1 root     audio     14,   3 Mar 14 02:11 /dev/dsp

...added myself to group audio, tried playing in xmms again, and got the same error. So just for fun, I changed the permissions to world-read-writable:

crw-rw-rw-    1 root     audio     14,   3 Mar 14 02:11 /dev/dsp

...and tried playing in xmms again.  This time I got a new error:

** WARNING **: oss_open(): Failed to open audio device (/dev/dsp): No such device


I don't know where to go from here.  Can someone help please?

Thanks

Thomas Peri













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