Re: No sound on PowerMac G3. Resolved !
On Friday, 22. March 2002 13.28, Russell Hires wrote:
> Hmmm...a couple of things. As I recall, you have to add
> yourself to the ???? group to be able to get sound. I
> don't know whether this is still the case or not.
> (Somebody help me on this!)
>
> Another thing is how you boot. Currently, I have to boot
> all the way into the MacOS, then boot into Linux using
> BootX. If you're using miBoot or quik to boot, then you
> may not be able to get sound because the Mac OS has to
> initialize the sound driver, and that requires going all
> the way into the Mac OS...but I'm using 8.6 for my Mac
> OS.
Your workaround was not necessary.
The main problem was, that the internal speakers are not
supported on Blue&White GS. I found this information on
http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/olh_ppc_sound.html
I attached external speakers and now everything works fine.
I boot directly into Debian/GNU/Linux.
Thank you very much for your help.
> On Thursday 21 March 2002 17:58 pm, Niklaus Giger wrote:
> > I recently bought a PowerMac G3 and had no trouble do a
> > netinstall based on the
> > http://people.debian.org/~ieure/netinst/releases/200202
> >15/woody_netinst-200 20215-powerpc.iso
> >
> > Thank you very much for your work!
> >
> > A lot of things work great (KDE, gnumeric, lyx, MOL)
> > but I have no sound. /dev/dsp* lists
> > crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 3 25. Jan
> > 00:43 /dev/dsp
> > crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 19 25. Jan
> > 00:43 /dev/dsp1
> > crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 35 25. Jan
> > 00:43 /dev/dsp2
> > crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 51 25. Jan
> > 00:43 /dev/dsp3
> > ii libarts 2.2.2-13 aRts Sound
> > system is installed. But neither xmms nor with kde
> > control center for sounds I am able to hear anything.
> > Under MacOS 9.2 sound is okay.
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