On Sun, 2005-05-08 at 15:05 +0100, Noah Slater wrote: > Hello, > > I am having problems getting sound to work on my G5 powermac. > > I am using the prebuilt 2.6.11-power4-smp kernel and have used apt to get > alsa. > > Using alsaconf to set up sound support (or using "modprobe > snd-powermac") I get the following error message: > > FATAL: Error inserting snd_powermac > (/lib/modules/2.6.11-power4-smp/kernel/sound/ppc/snd-powermac.ko): No > such device > FATAL: Error running install command for snd_powermac > > Looking at the tail of "dmesg" I see the following line every time I try: > > pmac: can't request resource 0! > > What is going wrong, and how can I fix it?
Simply that the current powermac alsa sound driver doesn't have support for the G5. I implemented some simple support in later kernels which should make analog work on some desktop G5s, but not digital yet. It's in 2.6.12-rc4 Ben. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
