nico dreher wrote:
I am struggling with sound on a Lombard G3 running Debian unstable and kernel 2.4.23-pre5-ben.In order to hear sound, I need to do after every restart: cat /vmlinux > /dev/dsp Is there a solution to this?
You mean, terminal noises? Maybe add 'dmasound_pmac' to the list in /etc/modules, so that it'll be loaded automatically on startup.
PROBLEM: cannot play music cd's Xmms version 1.2.8 is installed but fails to play music cd's.Alsaplayer version 0.99.75 is installed but won't even start up (returning error: "Invalid config file").
xmms can play it, but you'll need to install the 'xmms-cdread' package, and (recommended) go into the xmms Preferences window, and disable the "CD Audio Player" plugin. Then use the file selector to select the CD-ROM device (/dev/cdrom or whatever), and if you have an audio CD in the drive, you should now be able to hear it.
The problem is, on most NewWorld machines (particularly PowerBooks/iBooks and iMacs), there is no connection between the CD-ROM drive and the audio board for Red Book audio, so you have to use a player that reads the digital audio off the CD, and plays it back the conventional way.
-- Derrik Pates dpates@dsdk12.net