Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] iBook G4 & ALSA

[Ruben]

At Wed, 28 Jul 2004 14:12:14 +0100,
shay.stowe@××××××××××.com wrote:
>
> I cannot seem to get ALSA to work on my iBook G4 2003 800Mhz.
> DMA is picking up the in built soundcard and I am getting audio in KDE but
> it is very tinny.
> I have been through the documentation and installed all of the relevent
> modules as part of the kernel (2.6.7).
>
> Any time I try to run alsasound I get a Fatal Message around the
> snd-powermac load.
> Should this be trying to load if it was built as part of the kernel ?
>
> I have tried rebuilding the kernel with all of the sound components as
> modules and loading them but
> this still produces the same results as the snd-powermac still fails to
> load even though it is present (Device not found)

Maybe reading this thread in the forums will help ?

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=193294

and this one

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=195227

If you say it says "device not found", that sounds like the OSS sound
driver already 'claimed' the sound device. The fatal message might be
because you don't have the i2c modules loaded ?

Hope this helps,

Ruben

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