Re: Sound not working on PowerPC Macs?

[Clark Martin <cmmac@sonic.net>]

Rick Thomas wrote:
> On May 24, 2009, at 3:52 AM, Rafal Czlonka wrote:
>
> > Jamie Downs wrote:
> > > Add this line to /etc/modules
> > > snd-powermac
> >
> > AFAIK (correct me if I'm wrong) snd-powermac is deprecated.
> > You should use snd-aoa now.
>
> Adding snd-powermac to /etc/modules gets rid of the errors at boot time 
> from /etc/init.d/alsa-utils.
>
> But it doesn't fix the "no sound" problem.
>
> Adding snd-aoa instead of snd-powermac doesn't get rid of the error 
> messages and doesn't fix the "no-sound" problem, either.

Funny, I haven't had problems with sound on a G3 or G4 under Debian but 
did with Fedora.  modprobe snd-powermac fixed it in both F9 and F10.  I 
tried it initially at the command prompt then added it to the 
/etc/rc.local file.

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