On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Nathan S. wrote: So far I have been unable to get satisfactory sound using either OSS or Alsa. The OSS driver plays sound through the built in speaker and I don't know how to turn it off. I haven't been able to get Alsa to work yet at all.
I have a G4 dual 500 MHz snakebite. I use a combination of Debian unstable and some programs compiled from scratch. I have been using recent CVS kernels from Ben's trees. Good news is I finally got X working again. Has anyone gotten satisfactory sound on similar hardware? Fred > Paul Talacko wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 08:48:19PM -0800, Nathan S. wrote: > > > >>I compiled my own kernel yesterday (feeling very proud of doing just > >>that) and have fixed some problems. I have questions about dma sound > >>and scsi though. I compiled (kernel-source-2.4.18 with patch from > >>kernel.org) with CONFIG_DMASOUND_PMAC=y and CONFIG_DMASOUND=y, but get > >>no sound. Do I need just dmasound_pmac, or do I need to include > >>sound_dmap=y? > >> > > > > > > Sound has been a problem for me too. On my 6500 (yes, I know it's > > *really* old), I get no dmasound. A partial solution is to use alsa. > > If you do this make sure you uninstall the dmasound modules. > > > > ALSA is not perfect because I have no volume control at all unless I use > > alsa-player, and even then the maximum volume is only half of what it > > should be. If I try to use a mixer when xmms or mp3blaster is playing > > the sound starts to break up completely. > > > > I'm planning to try the alsa-xmms plugin to see what happens, but it's > > only available in unstable at the moment and I'm running stable, and I > > haven't figured out how to run one unstable package on a machine that is > > running stable everywhere else -- but I'll get there. > > > > So, in short, try ALSA. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Paul > > I'm sorry to hear that about alsa - I was thinking of switching to that, > but it doesn't look like that would be a better solution than fixing > dmasound. > > As far as installing an unstable package while maintaining a stable > machine, I do it this way: > > add the line deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable main (and > whatever else you want here) to /etc/apt/sources.list > > Then run apt-get update to get the new list of packages. Then to > install the package just enter apt-get install foo. If you only want > the one package, then you can go back in and comment out the 'unstable' > line in sources.list and run apt-get update again. If you don't do > this, make sure you specify the version of any new packages you want > after that so that you don't install an unstable package by accident. > > I'm new to apt, so if something doesn't look right, somebody give a holler. > > Regards, > Nathan > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
