Re: sound problem ibook g4
* m laks [110427 18:03 -0700]:
> 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.
A good way of debugging would be to list the snd modules Ubuntu
distro is using. I guess snd-aoa-codec-tas should be correct for
your machine. Could you please send the output of
$ lsmod | grep snd
from your Ubuntu distro?
>
> 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
>
Don't put any snd module in /etc/modules and let udev do the job.
> the following modules to be blacklisted:
>
> snd-aoa
> snd-aoa-codec-tas
> snd-aoa-fabric-layout
> snd-aoa-i2sbus
> snd-aoa-soundbus
Don't do that.
> -
> 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...
Do what I've mentioned above, reboot and post the following outputs
as user:
$ lsmod | grep snd
$ cat /proc/asound/cards
$ cat /proc/asound/version
$ dpkg -l | egrep "(alsa-|asound)"
$ aplay -lL
$ groups
Elimar
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