Hi, I'm doing my first ever linux install on a mac (gentoo - I've asked this question on the gentoo forums, no response) and have got as far as getting sound working.
ALSA *appears* to be configured properly, and alsamixer shows the card. 'aplay some.wav' seems to play the wav with no errors, and seems to try and play it for the right length of time, - However, no sound comes out. I'm trying to get sound out of the internal speaker. It's a silver powermac g4. ALSA thinks the sound card is a 'tumbler'. My kernel is latest development-sources. 2.6.3-benh2 I have everything compiled into the kernel, instead of as modules... But all of the alsa programs are happy. (Saves on module configuration files, I think) "Powermac DMA support" is NOT compiled into the kernel ALSA, Sequencer Support, Sequencer dummy client, OSS API Emu, and the Powermac devices are built into the kernel. Everything else is switched off. "aplay some.wav -v" reports no errors I've played with the various settings in amixer quite a lot. Maxed and unmuted everything... Stuff like that. It seems to make no difference. I've also tried connecting some headphones to the headphones jack, and can't get any noise out of those either. Here is the output from amixer: Simple mixer control 'Master',0 Capabilities: pvolume pswitch Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right Limits: Playback 0 - 176 Front Left: Playback 176 [100%] [on] Front Right: Playback 176 [100%] [on] Simple mixer control 'Headphone',0 Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined Playback channels: Mono Mono: Playback [on] Simple mixer control 'Headphone Detection',0 Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined Playback channels: Mono Mono: Playback [off] Simple mixer control 'Bass',0 Capabilities: volume volume-joined Playback channels: Mono Limits: 0 - 72 Mono: 43 [60%] Simple mixer control 'Treble',0 Capabilities: volume volume-joined Playback channels: Mono Limits: 0 - 72 Mono: 43 [60%] Simple mixer control 'PCM',0 Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined Playback channels: Mono Limits: Playback 0 - 176 Mono: Playback 140 [80%] Simple mixer control 'PC Speaker',0 Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined Playback channels: Mono Mono: Playback [on] Simple mixer control 'Auto Mute',0 Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined Playback channels: Mono Mono: Playback [off] Simple mixer control 'DRC',0 Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined Playback channels: Mono Mono: Playback [on] Simple mixer control 'DRC Range',0 Capabilities: volume volume-joined Playback channels: Mono Limits: 0 - 95 Mono: 68 [72%] An ideas about where to look next? Thanks, Simon ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
