Subject: Re: Sound on a B&W G3 with CS 1.2
From: Dan Burcaw (dburcaw@terraplex.com)
Date: Thu Mar 23 2000 - 07:05:24 MST
The answer is to not use aumix for a mixer. It sucks and doesn't work
nicely on PPC. Other mixers like those found in KDE or GNOME work much
better for us.
> I installed CS 1.2 on a rev. 2 B&W G3, but I haven't been able to get sound
> to work. Trying to run aumix gave the following error message:
>
> aumix: error opening mixer
>
> In /var/log/messages, I found the following error messages:
>
> modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-slot-0
> modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-0-0
>
> conf.modules is empty and modprobe doesn't list aliases for those two
> modules, so I'm assuming that's why I had to load the modules by hand. After
> doing so, aumix now starts; however, it seems a bit flaky. For instance,
> setting the level for the speaker doesn't seem to work.
>
> Anyway, I'm still not getting any sound on the external speakers when trying
> to play mp3s with xmms. However, I'm not completely sure if this is because
> of a sound problem as xmms seems to be acting flaky as well: it's filling up
> my home directory with WAV files.
>
> Any ideas?
>
>
Regards,
Dan
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