Subject: Re: Sound from a Cube?
From: Iain Stevenson (iain@iainstevenson.com)
Date: Mon Dec 17 2001 - 07:36:35 MST
I haven't folowed this thread - so please don't shoot me if this has
already been said.
There were several versions of the kernel where the sound support did not
work on any Mac. You should try a newer kernel and also compiling in the
sound support rather than loading it as a module.
Iain
--On Monday, December 17, 2001 9:04 am -0500 Avinash Gupta
<agupta@mediaone.net> wrote:
> ALSA has support for Powerbooks, so I think it should work ... can't be
> sure though since I don't own a Powerbook :) It doesn't hurt to try
> though. If the 'modprobe snd-card-pmac' fails then I would not go
> further.
>
> -- Avinash Gupta (agupta@mediaone.net)
>
> On Monday 17 December 2001 04:10, you wrote:
>> On Monday 17 December 2001 01:16, you wrote:
>> > I was able to get sound using the ALSA drivers from CVS. It was
>> > actually pretty simple (at least on YDL 2.1). I assume you are running
>> > the stock 2.4.10-12a kernel (non-smp) from YDL 2.1 and you have the
>> > sources installed in /usr/src/linux.
>> >
>> > 1. Make sure the soundcore module is loaded:
>> > modprobe soundcore (as root)
>> > 2. Get the latest CVS sources from:
>> > ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/cvsexport
>> > 3. Unpack the sources and change directory to alsa-driver
>> > 4. ./configure --with-cards=pmac
>> > 5. make
>> > 6. make install (as root)
>> >
>> > Once the install is over, try loading the new modules:
>> > modprobe snd-card-pmac
>> >
>> > If that goes well, use the following /etc/modules.conf
>> >
>> > alias char-major-116 snd
>> > options snd snd_major=116 snd_cards_limit=1
>> > alias snd-card-0 snd-card-pmac
>> > options snd-card-pmac snd_index=0
>> > alias char-major-14 soundcore
>> > alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
>> > alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
>> > alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
>> > alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
>> > alias sound-service-1-0 snd-mixer-oss
>> > alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
>> > alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
>> >
>> > Reboot. That's it! You should have sound now (well ... keep your
>> > fingers crossed anyways ;-)
>>
>> Is this good for a Ti PB 400Mhz, I have been trying to get sound from
>> cd-rom and kde, but always bums out saying that there is no 16 bit mode.
>>
>>
>>
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