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Re: no sound with alsa



Thanks! the udev approach you indicated followed by reinstalling
alsa-base and adjusting the volume via alsamixer worked for me.

On 11/30/07, Elimar Riesebieter <riesebie@lxtec.de> wrote:
> Hi gents,
>
> On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 the mental interface of
> Joe Corneli told:
>
> > Vincent: I would be interested to know if you ever resolved the issues
> > you described at:
> >
> > http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2006/08/msg00038.html
> >
> > because I am having the same problem now!
> >
> > "Error: Cannot open device alsa09."
>
> [...]
>
> The mentioned alsa device is provided by libao2. Since version 0.8.7
> there is no alsa09 device present. We have to use alsa vor the alsa
> 0.9/1 API now. If you have libao (0.8.8-3) installed, the entry in
> /etc/libao.conf should be correct. If you have a ~/.libao you might
> delete it or do a "echo default_driver=alsa" > ~/.libao.
>
> On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 the mental interface of
> Vincent Lefevre told:
>
> > On 2007-11-29 01:25:39 -0600, Joe Corneli wrote:
> > > Vincent: I would be interested to know if you ever resolved the issues
> > > you described at:
> > >
> > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2006/08/msg00038.html
> > >
> > > because I am having the same problem now!
> > >
> > > "Error: Cannot open device alsa09."
> >
> > I was using OSS, and this is the alsaconf script that broke the
> > sound system. See
>
> The alsaconf script doesn't break sound. It is just unusable for ppc
> cards right now. You can try /etc/init.d/udev restart && udevtrigger
> instead. If you want to use OSS you have to run dpkg-reconfigure
> linux-sound-base and choose oss. The driver should be loaded via
> /etc/modules.
>
> >   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=381658
> >
> > There's also a bug in the Linux kernel:
> >
> >   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=408746
>
> If you have udev running and a kernel >= 2.6.18-rc? then udev should
> load your snd_aoa flavour at G4 PB's. Note: do not mention any snd-*
> module in /etc/modules and no user-snd-blacklists in
> /etc/modprobe.d/. linux-sound-base has to be configured for alsa.
>
> Elimar
>
>
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