On Wed, 2002-07-24 at 02:22, Greg Howland wrote: > Hi, I saw a post of yours in the Debian-PowerPC > archives and thought you could help me with getting > sound on my PowerBook. The archives stated the > solution was to get dmaaudio-pmac, run modconf and > install the modules, then adduser username audio to > give yourself access to the device.
That sound about right. except it is dmasound_pmac > My quesion is, is dmaaudio-pmac a package I can > download with apt-get? Or, is there something > more involved I have to do? > > Greg If you have a stock debian kernel, then it should be one of the modules that came with it. try: modprobe dmasound_pmac, then lsmod. dmasound_pmac 47056 2 dmasound_core 13512 2 [dmasound_pmac] soundcore 4520 3 [dmasound_core] I am running a 2.4 kernel and there is a possibility that the module was called dmaaudio_pmac in 2.2, its pretty easy to find out. look at: modprobe -l If you have built your own kernel, be sure that you are using the benh kernel sources: Ben's tree @ http://penguinppc.org/dev/kernel.shtml There, the option is: <M> PowerMac DMA sound support in the sound section, or: CONFIG_DMASOUND_PMAC=m CONFIG_DMASOUND=m in the .config (You chould base your .config on the debian default which is in /boot/config-2.2.20-newpmac. I am not sure / can't remember what happens when you take a config from a 2.2 kernel and use it in a 2.4 kernel. It should be OK. -- David Stanaway
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