Re: Sound on PowerMac G5
On Sun, 2005-05-08 at 15:05 +0100, Noah Slater wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am having problems getting sound to work on my G5 powermac.
>
> I am using the prebuilt 2.6.11-power4-smp kernel and have used apt to get alsa.
>
> Using alsaconf to set up sound support (or using "modprobe
> snd-powermac") I get the following error message:
>
> FATAL: Error inserting snd_powermac
> (/lib/modules/2.6.11-power4-smp/kernel/sound/ppc/snd-powermac.ko): No
> such device
> FATAL: Error running install command for snd_powermac
>
> Looking at the tail of "dmesg" I see the following line every time I try:
>
> pmac: can't request resource 0!
>
> What is going wrong, and how can I fix it?
Simply that the current powermac alsa sound driver doesn't have support
for the G5. I implemented some simple support in later kernels which
should make analog work on some desktop G5s, but not digital yet. It's
in 2.6.12-rc4
Ben.
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