On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 18:04:24 +1000, Stephen K�hn wrote:
On Sat, 2004-09-18 at 13:30, michael higgins wrote:
I was hoping anyone might help me get the sound going on my g-3 macdrake machine. I did a text install, and it's going well.
But I don't have any sound. I just urpmi'd mplayer and it installed as well, and appears to work if I pass it -ao oss, for example, but artsd and alsa report no soundcard. aplay -l gives me nada.
So, I'm wondering if anyone has a suggestion as to what I do next to get sound out of this thing, or where may be the best place to ask?
You might actually want to check all your mixer settings prior to proclaiming that the sound isn't working - and as well - double check the settings in the Mandrake Control Center under Hardware and make sure that the proper driver is loading - provided you've already checked out the mixer settings - to make sure it's not turned down all the way.
Ah, yup. MDK 9.1 here. Sound by default (with my SB 5.1 card) was always set to 0. In fact, *all* levels were set to 0, and I had to reset them with kmix (/usr/bin/kmix) after _every_ re-boot. A real PITA until I discovered aumix (/usr/bin/aumix). Now my levels are set and they stay set across re-boots. urpmi aumix -- recommended.
Regards, Jonesy
Thanks for your replies. Still, no luck.
The oddest thing is that every test, but for actually using the sound, shows that everything is loaded and ready to go. Mandrake Control Center under Hardware doesn't show any sound hardware. From my reading, it may be some hack via the initial boot in MacOS that gives access to the sound. IDK. Aumix shows it ready to go, as well as /proc/devices /proc/modules /dev/sndstat (IIRC). In other words, it looks like it should work.
Googling has not led me to find any success stories with this particular mac (beige g-3, and 'old world' ppc), but for one who said he had it working until he installed and booted into MacOS 9.1 on a different drive: then, bootx into linux failed to load the sound. This is much like my system, with 9.22 on the scsi bus.
That aside, I re-installed mdk 9.1, just to be sure I didn't miss anything in the installation phase, and installed nearly everything, just in case. I like how it works. I'm still trying to get both monitors ('heads'?) to work, but that's another story.
Anyway, I tried the 10.1 'cooker' distro, and didn't get it to go. Meanwhile, I tried compiling alsa from CVS, but it failed. Maybe I'll post a query on the alsa list. Or the ppc-cooker list.
Thanks again,
-- mike higgins
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