Re: Audio output for PowerMac G5

[peperoland@yahoo.com]

Hi Rick,

I'm in the same boat with a powerbook G4; no sound cards found.

I found this a couple of weeks ago but I haven't give it a try yet.

http://ppcluddite.blogspot.mx/2015/08/debian-kernel-with-sound-fix.html?m=1

I'm a musician so I might give it a try this week too.


Regards
Jose.

> On 05/03/2016, at 9:39 p.m., Rick Thomas <rbthomas@pobox.com> wrote:
> 
> I have an ancient PowerMac G5 dual-core 2.0GHZ (PowerMac11,2) machine I'd like to use to help Hanno Zulla test his new "Sonic Pi" software on bigendian hardware.
> 
> But alsamixer tells me I have no audio cards and no audio devices.
> 
> Or, to put it another way:
>> rbthomas@bigal:~$ ls -l /proc/asound/
>> total 0
>> -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar  5 19:31 cards
>> -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar  5 19:31 devices
>> -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar  5 19:31 modules
>> dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Mar  5 19:31 oss
>> dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Mar  5 19:31 seq
>> -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar  5 19:31 version
>> rbthomas@bigal:~$ cat -v /proc/asound/cards 
>> --- no soundcards ---
>> rbthomas@bigal:~$ cat -v /proc/asound/devices 
>> rbthomas@bigal:~$ cat -v /proc/asound/modules 
>> rbthomas@bigal:~$
> 
> Am I just not loading the right kernel modules?  I'm pretty sure I was able to use this machine with iTunes when it was running MacOS-X, so there is audio hardware in there somewhere.
> 
> Thanks for any help!
> Rick