[works] Re: sound on quad powermac/latest powerbooks/imacs

[Charles Plessy <charles-debian-nospam@plessy.org>]

On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 08:48:11PM +0200, Eduardo Trápani wrote :
> >>$ insmod ./soundbus/i2sbus/i2sbus.ko
> >
> >sorbet【snd-aoa】$ sudo /sbin/insmod ./soundbus/soundbus.ko
> >sorbet【snd-aoa】$ sudo /sbin/insmod ./soundbus/i2sbus/i2sbus.ko
> >insmod: error inserting './soundbus/i2sbus/i2sbus.ko': -1 Unknown symbol 
> >in module
> 
> You might want to load soundcore first.  Or install the modules and do a 
> depmod -a and then modprobe instead of insmod.

That was a good idea. I copied all the modules under
/lib/modules/2.6.16farm/kernel/sound/ppc/snd-aoa/ and ran depmod -a. I
can now load the modules.

Unfortunately I had no /dev/dsp, although I would have had expected it to
have been created automagically. To try a quick fix, I did:

sudo ln -s /dev/.static/dev/dsp /dev/dsp
sudo chmod 755 /dev/.static/
 
I then realised that I did not have alsa installed. But after  

sudo apt-get install alsa-utils alsa-base
sudo dpkg-reconfigure linux-sound-base

and of course un-muting the alsamixer,

It works !!

Blessed are the kernel developpers.

-- 
Charles