Subject: RE: Sound on a G4
From: Gary Browning (gary@iusb.edu)
Date: Thu Apr 27 2000 - 07:52:40 MDT
Okay, that makes sense... but how can I get YDL 1.2
to pull its audio off the IDE cable via DMA? Or is it just
not possible at this time?
Thanks,
Gary
At 07:55 PM 4/26/2000 -0800, you wrote:
>This is also the same issue with any new iMac, iBook's, and Powerbook
>Firewires. The new systems pull the audio tracks off of the CD's digitally
>and then convert them to audio.
>
>Jeff Ridder
>jridder@gci.net
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jim Cole [mailto:greyleaf@yggdrasill.net]
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2000 5:01 PM
> > To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> > Subject: Re: Sound on a G4
> >
> >
> > Gary Browning's bits of Wed, 26 Apr 2000 translated to:
> >
> > >KDE and GNOME, I cannot get audio CDs to play. The CD
> > >spins up, the CD Player app counts tracks/timing; however,
> > >there is absolutely no sound. Also xmms remains quiet.
> >
> > I encountered the same problem with audio CD's on my G4.
> > Someone on the list pointed out that the drives used by
> > the G4's don't support analog output (the analog cable
> > connected to the sound card). Thus no sound with the
> > various CD player apps.
> >
> > Jim
> >
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