Hi Rick, I'm in the same boat with a powerbook G4; no sound cards found.
I found this a couple of weeks ago but I haven't give it a try yet. http://ppcluddite.blogspot.mx/2015/08/debian-kernel-with-sound-fix.html?m=1 I'm a musician so I might give it a try this week too. Regards Jose. > On 05/03/2016, at 9:39 p.m., Rick Thomas <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have an ancient PowerMac G5 dual-core 2.0GHZ (PowerMac11,2) machine I'd > like to use to help Hanno Zulla test his new "Sonic Pi" software on bigendian > hardware. > > But alsamixer tells me I have no audio cards and no audio devices. > > Or, to put it another way: >> rbthomas@bigal:~$ ls -l /proc/asound/ >> total 0 >> -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 5 19:31 cards >> -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 5 19:31 devices >> -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 5 19:31 modules >> dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Mar 5 19:31 oss >> dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Mar 5 19:31 seq >> -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 5 19:31 version >> rbthomas@bigal:~$ cat -v /proc/asound/cards >> --- no soundcards --- >> rbthomas@bigal:~$ cat -v /proc/asound/devices >> rbthomas@bigal:~$ cat -v /proc/asound/modules >> rbthomas@bigal:~$ > > Am I just not loading the right kernel modules? I'm pretty sure I was able > to use this machine with iTunes when it was running MacOS-X, so there is > audio hardware in there somewhere. > > Thanks for any help! > Rick
