On Sat, 29 Mar 2008 the mental interface of
Risto Suominen told:
> I've been trying to fix ALSA support for older PowerMacs. Anyone
> experiencing problems - like missing or inoperative or wrongly
> directed controls in alsamixer - could you, please, test my patch and
> write the results into this list or directly to me?
Maybe this could be a fix for two Debian bugs:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=367773
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=446968
Please send resulte to the bug reports as well.
> If you are still with me, check first with lsmod that you are using
> snd-powermac:
> $ lsmod | grep ^snd.powermac
> snd_powermac 56576 0
> $
>
> Then you will need to install make, C-compiler and kernel headers
> corresponding to your running kernel, f.ex (Ubuntu Dapper 6.06.1):
> $ sudo aptitude install make gcc linux-headers-2.6.15-26-powerpc
>
> and fetch the ALSA driver source code and my patch:
> $ wget ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/driver/alsa-driver-1.0.16.tar.bz2
> $ wget http://ristosu.wippiespace.com/pub/alsa-driver-1.0.16-p4.diff
>
> Unpack the source and apply the patch:
> $ tar xjf alsa-driver-1.0.16.tar.bz2
> $ cd alsa-driver-1.0.16
> $ patch -p0 < ../alsa-driver-1.0.16-p4.diff
>
> Finally configure:
> $ ./configure --disable-verbose-printk
> --with-kernel=/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.15-26-powerpc
> --with-build=/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.15-26-powerpc
> --with-moddir=/lib/modules/2.6.15-26-powerpc/updates/sound
> --with-isapnp=no --with-oss=yes --with-pcm-oss-plugins=yes
> --with-cards=powermac
>
> make and install:
> $ make
> $ sudo make install-modules
>
> To load the new modules without rebooting:
> $ sudo modprobe -r snd-powermac
> $ sudo modprobe -r snd-pcm-oss
> $ sudo modprobe snd-powermac
>
> Risto
Elimar
--
.~.
/V\ L I N U X
/( )\ >Phear the Penguin<
^^-^^
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature