Re: No sound: Deb Sarge on G4 iMac (Addendum)
Harvey Ussery wrote:
Have just started with Debian--Sarge on a G4 iMac.
Though I've been using Linux several years, have never dealt w sound
config issues. However, based on all resources I have to read and a
lot of googling, I'm pretty sure I have all the tools in place for
sound--alsa & company.
More on current cofiguration:
harvey@doob:~$ lsmod
Module Size Used by
uninorth_agp 8544 1
agpgart 42412 1 uninorth_agp
evdev 11968 0
tsdev 8640 0
sr_mod 22884 0
snd_powermac 44304 0
snd_pcm_oss 68136 0
snd_mixer_oss 23264 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 119800 2 snd_powermac,snd_pcm_oss
snd_page_alloc 13480 1 snd_pcm
snd_timer 29348 1 snd_pcm
snd 67800 5
snd_powermac,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore 11812 1 snd
sbp2 28080 0
harvey@doob:~$
I certainly seem to have modules in place to handle sound.
harvey@doob:~$ cat /dev/sndstat
Sound Driver:3.8.1a-980706 (ALSA v1.0.4 emulation code)
Kernel: Linux doob 2.6.8-powerpc #1 Sun Oct 3 13:22:21 CEST 2004 ppc
Config options: 0
Installed drivers:
Type 10: ALSA emulation
Card config:
PowerMac Tumbler (Dev 29) Sub-frame 0
Audio devices:
0: PowerMac Tumbler
Synth devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG
Midi devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG
Timers:
7: system timer
Mixers:
0: PowerMac Tumbler
harvey@doob:~$
"Audio devices" apparently config'd. Since I'm only interested in basic
audio, I shouldn't be concerned that Synth & Midi are not config'd, right?
What about sound drivers?
harvey@doob:~$ cd /lib/modules/2.6.8-powerpc/kernel/drivers/
harvey@doob:/lib/modules/2.6.8-powerpc/kernel/drivers$ ls -l
total 92
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2005-01-06 05:30 atm
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2005-01-06 05:30 base
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2005-01-06 05:30 block
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2005-01-06 05:30 bluetooth
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2005-01-06 05:30 cdrom
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 2005-01-06 05:30 char
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2005-01-06 05:30 cpufreq
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 2005-01-06 05:30 i2c
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2005-01-06 05:30 ide
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2005-01-06 05:30 ieee1394
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4096 2005-01-06 05:30 input
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2005-01-06 05:30 isdn
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2005-01-06 05:30 macintosh
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2005-01-06 05:30 md
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 2005-01-06 05:30 media
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2005-01-06 05:30 message
drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 4096 2005-01-06 05:30 net
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2005-01-06 05:30 pcmcia
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 2005-01-06 05:30 scsi
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2005-01-06 05:30 telephony
drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 4096 2005-01-06 05:30 usb
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 2005-01-06 05:30 video
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2005-01-06 05:30 w1
I don't see anything that could be sound driver, so I cd to the
macintosh subdirectory:
harvey@doob:/lib/modules/2.6.8-powerpc/kernel/drivers$ cd macintosh/
harvey@doob:/lib/modules/2.6.8-powerpc/kernel/drivers/macintosh$ ls -l
total 56
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6245 2004-10-03 08:12 ans-lcd.ko
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10747 2004-10-03 08:12 apm_emu.ko
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17222 2004-10-03 08:12 therm_adt746x.ko
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15935 2004-10-03 08:12 therm_windtunnel.ko
harvey@doob:/lib/modules/2.6.8-powerpc/kernel/drivers/macintosh$
Still don't see anything like a sound driver.
Again, many thanks to anyone who can get me started on the correct
diagnostic path why I don't have sound enabled. --Harvey
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