Subject: Re: Audio
From: karapta (ae6594@devrycols.edu)
Date: Sun Feb 03 2002 - 23:18:13 MST
Thank you! I will try installing the sound tomorrow. I hope I have luck!
-Karapta Man
On Saturday, February 2, 2002, at 09:44 AM, Avinash Gupta wrote:
> Here is what I had to do to get ALSA running on my machine:
> YDL stock 2.4.10 kernel (SMP), XF86 4.1, G4 sawtooth w/AGP ATI Rage
> 128,
> Apple Studio Display 17" (using Apple Display Connector).
>
> 1. Download alsa-driver-0.9.0beta10.tar.bz2 from:
> ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/driver/alsa-driver-0.9.0beta10.tar.bz2
> 2. bzip2 -d alsa-driver-0.9.0beta10.tar.bz2
> 3. tar xvf alsa-driver-0.9.0beta10.tar
> 4. su -
> 5. modprobe soundcore
> 6. cp -R /lib/modules/2.4.10-12a/misc /tmp {for backup}
> 6. exit
> 7. cd alsa-driver-0.9.0beta10/cards/ppc
> 8. vi awacs.c
> 9. {Delete line 63 that says "#ifdef CONFIG_PMAC_PBOOK"}
> 10. {Delete line 76 that says "#endif"}
> 11. Save the file and quit
> 12. cd ../..
> 13. ./configure --with-cards=pmac
> 14. make
> 15. su -
> 15. make install
> 16. modprobe snd-card-pmac
>
> If all the above work, congratulations! All you need to do is add the
> following line to /etc/modules.conf (Comment out existing alias sound
> lines.).
>
> # ALSA portion
> 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
>
> # OSS/Free portion
> alias char-major-14 soundcore
> alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
> alias sound-slot-1 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 ... you should get no errors in loading the sound module and
> sound
> should work fine in KDE.
>
> If anything goes wrong, you can replace your old
> /lib/modules/2.4.10-12a/misc
> directory with the one from /tmp and you should be OK).
>
> DISCLAIMER: I have ONLY tested this on my machine with the stock YDL
> kernel.
> Your mileage may vary depending on your machine and kernel.
>
> -- Avinash Gupta (agupta@mediaone.net)
>
> On Thursday 31 January 2002 10:51, you wrote:
>> On Thu 31 Jan 2002, Avinash Gupta wrote:
>>> Sound works fine for me after using the ALSA beta drivers. I have
>>> mentioned this a few times on the list, but seems like no one else has
>>> been able to get sound to work the way I suggested. Well ... guess
>>> what?
>>> It works great for me ... Take a look at my earlier post:
>>>
>>> http://lists.yellowdoglinux.com/yellowdog-general/January02/0315.html
>>
>> I *want* to try the ALSA drivers, but their installation instructions
>> are kind of expert-ish. (they're like, "compile the drivers, load
>> the approriate one, then go." Uh, OK.)
>>
>> Is there a dumbed-down HOWTO for ALSA out there?
>>
>> Andy
>>
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