On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 01:46:26PM +0100, Matthieu Oppliger wrote: > Hello ! > I try to use ALSA on my G3-266. > > After recompilation of my kernel (2.6.8),with ALSA drivers as modules, > i did apt-get install alsa. > > Then alsaconf - finds powermac - PowerMac sound card. It seems that > alsaconf did'nt put snd and snd-powermac in my /etc/modules, so I did it > myself.
I think you'll find it has updated /etc/modules.d for you. > After alsaconf, it tells me : > _____ > Running update-modules... > Loading driver... > Starting ALSA.../etc/init.d/alsa: Error: alsactl restore failed with > message 'ALSA lib control.c:654:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL hw:0 > alsactl: set_controls:986: snd_ctl_open error: No such file or > directory'. > done. > Setting default volumes... > > =============================================================================== ... > Any idea of something missing ? I think you are missing the device files in /dev/snd/. If so, you need to run the snddevices script found in the alsa-driver sources. If that does not help, send the output of lsmod and relevant dmesg output. -- Martin
