Your suggestion did work. Thank you very much, Brad. I had no idea about dmasound_pmac... By the way, how should a newcomer learn about these model specific details? I find myself spending huge amounts of time trying to do this (and MANY other) seemingly simple tasks.
Thanks, -Katsumi On Sat, 19 Oct 2002, Brad Boyer wrote: > On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 06:38:48PM -0400, Katsumi Matsumoto wrote: > > Thanks for your reply. I get the error even as root. So audio group > > doesn't seem to be the problem. > > > > dmesg reveals that sound module is not loaded. But I still get the same > > error after "insmod sound" and confirming with "lsmod" that sound.o is > > loaded. I'm new at this and am pretty confused. > > That's probably not the correct module to load. For most PowerMac > models, the correct driver would be dmasound_pmac. I think sound.o > is one of the generic modules, not a driver for a specific chip. > If you do "modprobe dmasound_pmac" it should load the driver for > your sound chip, as well as any generic modules it needs. > > Brad Boyer > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
