On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Kevin Liang wrote: > I did not select sound card support when installing Debian for my > imac. Does this mean I'm SOL for sound ? I was thinking that sound was > handled a bit differently for Macs than PC's (built-into motherboard?). > Also, I don't have /dev/dsp.. thanks
To create the necessary audio devices, do: /dev/MAKEDEV audio (or maybe it's "sound" instead of "audio." I forget.) By default they are writeable by group audio; you'll probably want to add yourself to this group. If you have dmasound compiled into your kernel, you're done. If you have the dmasound module instead (in /lib/modules/2.x.x/misc), you can insert it with "modprobe dmasound". Make this happen automatically by adding this line to /etc/modutils/aliases: alias char-major-14 dmasound If you don't have the kernel driver or module, you'll need to compile a new kernel or module yourself, or grab a kernel image that includes it. The kernel packages for Debian should have it, and the binaries at Paul's page definitely do: http://linuxcare.com.au/paulus/kernels.html This was mostly from memory (my Debian PPC box is in another state and without power right now), so take filenames and commands with a grain of salt. ;-)
