Re: Sound not working on PowerPC Macs?
On May 24, 2009, at 5:56 PM, Rafal Czlonka wrote:
Rick Thomas wrote:
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.
That's obviously not the only module you're missing.
It would help if you could give some more details, e.g. what PowerPC
machine is it, which release are you using, etc.
I personally use snd-aoa (and some other modules) on my iBook G4
(PowerBook6,7) running unstable; snd-powermac worked for me couple
of years ago, but not the last time I tried it.
It's a PowerMac G4 "Silver" (deskside tower) running pretty-much
"vanilla" Squeeze: fresh off the install disk.
With snd-powermac installed, and with an external speaker plugged into
the "headphone" jack on the back of the computer, I can get sound, but
*only* from the onboard speaker. The external speaker (looks like
"headphone") remains silent.
Very peculiar!
If I were to file a bug report, which package should I file it against?
Thanks!
Rick
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Here are the details:
rbthomas@macswell:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
cpu : 7410, altivec supported
temperature : 36-39 C (uncalibrated)
clock : 533.333332MHz
revision : 0.3 (pvr 800c 1103)
bogomips : 66.30
timebase : 33290001
platform : PowerMac
model : PowerMac3,4
machine : PowerMac3,4
motherboard : PowerMac3,4 MacRISC2 MacRISC Power Macintosh
detected as : 69 (PowerMac G4 Silver)
pmac flags : 00000010
L2 cache : 1024K unified
pmac-generation : NewWorld
rbthomas@macswell:~$
rbthomas@macswell:~$ lsmod | grep snd
snd_powermac 47936 2
snd_aoa_i2sbus 22820 0
snd_pcm 79748 2 snd_powermac,snd_aoa_i2sbus
snd_page_alloc 12392 1 snd_pcm
snd_seq 57800 0
snd_timer 25508 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device 11020 1 snd_seq
snd 61876 10
snd_powermac,snd_aoa_i2sbus,snd_pcm,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
soundcore 10244 1 snd
snd_aoa_soundbus 9060 1 snd_aoa_i2sbus
rbthomas@macswell:~$
rbthomas@macswell:~$ aptitude search alsa | grep '^i'
i alsa-base - ALSA driver configuration files
i alsa-utils - ALSA utilities
i A gstreamer0.10-alsa - GStreamer plugin for ALSA
i A libesd-alsa0 - Enlightened Sound Daemon
(ALSA) - Shared l
i A libpt-1.10.10-plugins-alsa - Portable Windows Library Audio
Plugin for
i A libsdl1.2debian-alsa - Simple DirectMedia Layer (with
X11 and ALS
rbthomas@macswell:~$
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