Re: My sound driver/module (?) doesn`t work (dmasound)
I have similar problems on my iMac and e-mailed this list a few days ago. Nobody
has replied, so far...
On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, befu wrote:
> I installed Woody on my PowerBook G3 and upgraded and compiled the kernel to
> ben10 from ben9. But now my sound is not working anymore. When I try to
> reinstall the driver with my floppies I get a message that this
> reinstallation doesn't work.
>
> After a hint from this list I tried to use modconf but I couldn't find the
> dmasound driver in the modconf list. Also pointing the modconf source to the
> installer/driver disk didn't work.
>
> When I boot up in kernel benh10, I can see the following boot message:
>
> dmasound_pmac: Awacs/Screamer Code Mfct: 1 Rev 4
>
> which looks like the driver is installed.
>
> And further down during bootup it sais:
>
> dmasound modprobe: Can't locate module dmasound
>
> So it looks like the module is not present.
>
> So after that I did two new kernel compilations. The first one during `make
> menuconfig' with the choice of the DMA sound drivers as modules (M). And the
> second one with the choice of the DMA sound drivers as part of the kernel
> (y,*).
> In both cases the messages from above appear and the sound doesn't work.
>
> I did the compilation like: make menuconfig, make clean, make dep, make
> vmlinux, make modules, make modules_install.
>
> Does anybody have an idea?
>
> Is it a bug in the benh10 kernel because in benh9 I had no problem?
>
> befu
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