On Friday, 22. March 2002 13.28, Russell Hires wrote: > Hmmm...a couple of things. As I recall, you have to add > yourself to the ???? group to be able to get sound. I > don't know whether this is still the case or not. > (Somebody help me on this!) > > Another thing is how you boot. Currently, I have to boot > all the way into the MacOS, then boot into Linux using > BootX. If you're using miBoot or quik to boot, then you > may not be able to get sound because the Mac OS has to > initialize the sound driver, and that requires going all > the way into the Mac OS...but I'm using 8.6 for my Mac > OS. Your workaround was not necessary.
The main problem was, that the internal speakers are not supported on Blue&White GS. I found this information on http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/olh_ppc_sound.html I attached external speakers and now everything works fine. I boot directly into Debian/GNU/Linux. Thank you very much for your help. > On Thursday 21 March 2002 17:58 pm, Niklaus Giger wrote: > > I recently bought a PowerMac G3 and had no trouble do a > > netinstall based on the > > http://people.debian.org/~ieure/netinst/releases/200202 > >15/woody_netinst-200 20215-powerpc.iso > > > > Thank you very much for your work! > > > > A lot of things work great (KDE, gnumeric, lyx, MOL) > > but I have no sound. /dev/dsp* lists > > crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 3 25. Jan > > 00:43 /dev/dsp > > crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 19 25. Jan > > 00:43 /dev/dsp1 > > crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 35 25. Jan > > 00:43 /dev/dsp2 > > crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 51 25. Jan > > 00:43 /dev/dsp3 > > ii libarts 2.2.2-13 aRts Sound > > system is installed. But neither xmms nor with kde > > control center for sounds I am able to hear anything. > > Under MacOS 9.2 sound is okay. -- Niklaus Giger Wieshoschet 6 CH-8753 Mollis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel. G: +41 55 618 64 68, P: +41 55 612 20 54 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
