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Re: list of PowerMac sound hardware TO-DO (help welcome)



On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 06:52:13PM +0100, steinm wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 04:59:59PM +0000, Martin Habets wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 04:13:15PM +0200, Martin-?ric Racine wrote:
> > > On Tue, 22 Mar 2005, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > > 
> > > > On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 15:19 +0200, Martin-?ric Racine wrote:
> > > > > Regarding overall pmac ALSA support, is there a table that shows what
> > > > > works and what is broken for each supported sound hardware? Such a table
> > > > > could go a long way towards helping whoever will pocket the $500 Ubuntu
> > > > > bounty for fixing ALSA for all pmac sound hardware variants.
> > > > 
> > > > Not exactly, you are welcome to start such a table though :)
> > > 
> > > This is what I have so far:
> > > 
> > > 				------works y/n------
> > > CHIPSET         MODELS          BEEP            ALSA
> > > awacs
> > > burgundy        G3 iMac         no              no
> > > daca
> > > keywest
> > > tumbler
> > > 
> > > Other people are quite welcome to contribute additional data, especially
> > > which PowerMac models use which chipset.  Tools that can be used to find
> > > the info include 'lspci' 'dmesg' and 'hwinfo' - just to name a few.
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > Martin-?ric Racine
> > > http://www.iki.fi/q-funk/
> > > 
> > 
> > snapper		PowerBook3,4	yes (2.4.25-benh)	yes (1.0.3)
> > 				no (2.6.8.1)		yes (1.0.4)
> > 
> > Hope this is clear, but this is an older powerbook (around 2002).
> > Beep doesn't work in 2.6 because it is disabled in the code (don't know
> > why).
> My not too old ibook G4/1.3 GHz (PowerBook6,5) has snapper sound.
> Both Beep and Alsa work, though the volume seems too low after it has
> been to sleep and turning pcm up to a 100% results in lots of distortion.
> Before sleeping everything is fine.
> I didn't manage to record anything with mic.

try using alsamixer. On my ibook, I had distortion and low volume
problems until I discovered the "DRC Rang" mixer setting.
Using alsamixer, I could also switch the input source to mic.

Frank

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