Hi, I've got an older PPC-based Mac Mini. No one was using it so after sitting for a year unpowered I blew away OS X and put Gentoo on it. The install went well and sound is working (sort of) but I'm having some Alsa problems.
First, please note that my version of Alsa is a bit old but it is what the kernel seems to have provided. 1.0.16 is masked for Power PC. However if I need to unmask it - if it's known to be safe - then I'll do that before going too much further. Thanks. 1) In alsamixer I get binary controls and PCM but no master volume control. Is this normal for this driver? That created a small problem in MythTV until I changed the mixer settings in that app. 2) The real problem is that when shutting the machine down it hangs at 'Unloading Alsa modules' and never completes shutdown. At this point the network is down so I cannot log in and see what's going on. Is this a known issue or a config problem on my end? System info attached below. Cheers, Mark MacMini ~ # uname -a Linux MacMini 2.6.24-gentoo-r3 #3 SMP Fri Apr 18 10:23:01 PDT 2008 ppc 7447A, altivec supported PowerMac10,2 GNU/Linux MacMini ~ # MacMini ~ # cat /proc/asound/version Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.15 (Tue Nov 20 19:16:42 2007 UTC). MacMini ~ # MacMini ~ # cat /etc/modules.d/alsa # Alsa kernel modules' configuration file. # ALSA portion alias char-major-116 snd # OSS/Free portion alias char-major-14 soundcore ## ## IMPORTANT: ## You need to customise this section for your specific sound card(s) ## and then run `update-modules' command. ## Read alsa-driver's INSTALL file in /usr/share/doc for more info. ## ## ALSA portion alias snd-card-0 snd-powermac ## alias snd-card-1 snd-ens1371 ## OSS/Free portion alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0 ## alias sound-slot-1 snd-card-1 ## # OSS/Free portion - card #1 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-0-8 snd-seq-oss alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss ## OSS/Free portion - card #2 ## alias sound-service-1-0 snd-mixer-oss ## alias sound-service-1-3 snd-pcm-oss ## alias sound-service-1-12 snd-pcm-oss alias /dev/mixer snd-mixer-oss alias /dev/dsp snd-pcm-oss alias /dev/midi snd-seq-oss # Set this to the correct number of cards. options snd cards_limit=1 MacMini ~ # MacMini ~ # lsmod Module Size Used by radeon 139656 2 drm 80572 3 radeon ipv6 266452 12 snd_powermac 43392 0 lirc_streamzap 14116 0 lirc_dev 13704 1 lirc_streamzap usbhid 31620 0 snd_aoa_codec_toonie 2756 2 snd_aoa_fabric_layout 12328 0 snd_aoa 17632 2 snd_aoa_codec_toonie,snd_aoa_fabric_layout snd_aoa_i2sbus 21028 1 snd_pcm 83112 2 snd_powermac,snd_aoa_i2sbus snd_timer 22632 1 snd_pcm snd_page_alloc 9128 1 snd_pcm snd 52296 7 snd_powermac,snd_aoa_codec_toonie,snd_aoa_fabric_layout,snd_aoa,snd_aoa_i2sbus,snd_pcm,snd_timer soundcore 7144 1 snd snd_aoa_soundbus 5924 2 snd_aoa_fabric_layout,snd_aoa_i2sbus ohci1394 35024 0 ieee1394 92464 1 ohci1394 ehci_hcd 33356 0 ohci_hcd 33188 0 usbcore 149208 5 lirc_streamzap,usbhid,ehci_hcd,ohci_hcd ssb 32356 0 uninorth_agp 9516 1 agpgart 33216 2 drm,uninorth_agp MacMini ~ # ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
