Re: sound on albook

[Wolfgang Pfeiffer <roto@gmx.net>]

On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 10:59:17PM -0500, Tamas K Papp wrote:
> I just installed a sarge netinst daily image, it works fine but there
> are a few problems:
> 
> - sound is not working, there is no /dev/dsp, I am using the standard
> 2.6.8 kernel from testing, what should I do, recompile the kernel, get
> a more recent one, etc?


To learn what your sound chip is I'd enter a
cat /proc/asound/cards
Or:
lsprop /proc/device-tree | grep -i -C 5 sound | less
and then looking for soundchip or something like that ..

lsprop is part of the powerpc-utils package.

If you find you have a snapper sound chip (I'd guess you have one), and
ALSA, I'd try a 
modprobe snd_powermac

But perhaps the snd_powermac even works for other chips than the
snapper ones  ... don't know ...

Before that I'd try the dry-run of the command, like
modprobe --dry-run snd_powermac
The latter should change no settings on the system, IINM ..

Good luck

   Wolfgang

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