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Re: Audio output for PowerMac G5 - a bit more background



Some details...

I'm currently using Peter's "4.4.0-rc7-powerpc64 #1" kernel on an otherwise plain vanilla Debian Stretch base.

I seem to remember that Peter has a 4.5.0-rc2 kernel that may have some fixes for sound in it that aren't in his 4.4.0-rc7 kernel, but I can't find the link to download it from.

I have these modules loaded:
    ######## /etc/modules-load.d/local.conf ########
        i2c_powermac
        md_mod
        raid1


I've attached dmesg and lsmod output.

Thanks again!
Rick

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On Mar 5, 2016, at 7:39 PM, 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


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