On Sun, 2004-09-19 at 12:23, michael higgins wrote:
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
Check your machine specs for what sound device is installed...that may start to lead you down the right path mate.
-- stephen kuhn - proprietor
I can't believe it, but, indeed, installing MacOS 8.x instead of 9.22, fixed the sound server problem. Go figure. That should be in big type in the install readme, imho.
Anyway, I've had my moment of pure geek joy. That's days of hacking away at it, finally resolved.
So, again, thanks for the replies. I'm sure I might've given up without 'em. '-)
-- mike higgins
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