Re: Sound on powermac g3 blue and white

[derek o <derek37512@gmail.com>]

Well I got it to work finally :D.I had to install alsa-base,I also had
to change to 8bits sound,and I have to do a killall artsd before I
start some applications,but it seems to work great now.Time to go play
some quake 3.
Thanks,
Derek

On 10/21/05, derek o <derek37512@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello ben,thank you for the reply.How would I go about getting sound
> working in other applications(like armagetron for example)?I also dont
> understand why /dev/dsp does not exist.Is is something different.
> Thanks,
> Derek
>
> On 10/21/05, Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 23:47 -0700, derek o wrote:
> > > Hello,I am somewhat new to linux and I am trying to get the sound to
> > > work on my powermac g3 blue and white.I can hear the sound on the kde
> > > startup but I can not hear sound in any applications.Does alsa work on
> > > these machines?I really have no clue what to do.I tried to enable oss
> > > in the kde control center but It says /dev/dsp does not exist(which is
> > > true).Does anyone have one of these computers and have alsa or oss
> > > working?Thank you for the help.
> >
> > If you have sound at startup, then you have at least some sound driver
> > working :)
> >
> > Ben.
> >
> >
> >
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