sound problem ibook g4
Hi I have been using debian squeeze and now sid on a ibookg g4 1.2Ghz which i believe is a late 2004 machine - 30G harddrive.
Some time ago (way before squeeze) sound stopped working at all.
instead I get a scratchy terrible sound that sounds like someone blowing air under their tongue while scratching their fingernails on glass, whenever I try to listen to a ogg or mp3 lecture or music.
When I downloaded a ubuntu live disk 10.04 sound works fine. So it is not a hardware problem.
I had the problem for some before squeeze time and was running squeeze with this problem too. I tried some random things i googled - such as putting snd-powermac in the /etc/modules directory as well as putting
the following modules to be blacklisted:
snd-aoa
snd-aoa-codec-tas
snd-aoa-fabric-layout
snd-aoa-i2sbus
snd-aoa-soundbus
-
this had no effect. still the same bad sound.
I upgraded to the latest sid kernel 2.6.38-2
from the squeeze kernel and
no help. I also tried installing the latest alsa-driver from the alsa web site and this did not help?
Is there anything that I can do to get this very portable nice laptop sound working? It worked fine for the longest time...
here is lsmod|grep snd
snd_powermac 58851 0
snd_pcm_oss 44965 0
snd_mixer_oss 19254 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 68590 2 snd_powermac,snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq_dummy 4759 0
snd_seq_oss 33902 0
snd_seq_midi 8352 0
snd_rawmidi 22252 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event 7904 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq 53422 6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_timer 21631 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device 8861 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
snd 55632 11 snd_powermac,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
soundcore 8067 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 9121 1 snd_pcm
Thanks!
Mitchell Kaks
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