(Apologies - replied directly to Chris T.)
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From: North London John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue Jun 17, 2003 11:41:56 PM Europe/London
To: "Chris Tillman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: iMac static
This iMac static issue has been reported for Mandrake 8.2 and 9.1, and
Yellow Dog 2.3 and 3.0. It's been the bane of my ppclinux life. There
is very little info out there about how to correct it, and a some
quite wrong stuff (it was suggested that KDE was somehow involved -
but I installed M 9.1 with Gnome and no KDE at all, yet still got the
hiss). There's been a lot of discussion on the Yellow Dog mailing
lists, but no fix has been found.
As far as I can tell, it is a problem with dmasound_pmac, and the
solution is to dump that and use ALSA.
Big disclaimer: I'm very much a newbie and really don't understand
what goes on inside my mac.
Please let the list know what happens with installing Alsa.
John
On Tuesday, June 17, 2003, at 02:00 AM, Chris Tillman wrote:
On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 09:33:27PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've been trying to get sound on my iMac (slot loading DVD) with a
Woody
r1 install. I managed to get sound with esd in the default (2.2)
kernel
but I want to use the 2.4. When I use the 2.4 and add the
dmasound_pmac
module, I get mostly white noise from the speakers. esd will run
still
I got this also from cdda2wav before I figured out that I had to
specify
the source as little-endian (these are commercial CDs).
and I can hear the effects although they're rather staticy(?). (I
also
get clicks and pitch changes that parallel display changes (i.e.
clicking
as text scrolls by like when you have a short in a PS2 mouse port).
I was
I have heard that too.
thinking that I might need to pass something to the module but I
don't
know what.
I'm going to try to do this with ALSA while I wait for a reply, in
the
event I should fail the secretary...never mind.
Thanks for the help.
