Re: Audio output for PowerMac G5

2016-03-06 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mar 6, 2016, at 2:16 AM, Clive Menzies wrote: > On 06/03/16 05:43, Rick Thomas wrote: >> On Mar 5, 2016, at 8:20 PM, peperol...@yahoo.com wrote: >> >>> Hi Rick, >>> >>> I'm in the same boat with a powerbook G4; no sound cards found. >>> >>> I found this a couple of weeks ago but I haven't

Re: Audio output for PowerMac G5

2016-03-06 Thread Clive Menzies
On 06/03/16 05:43, Rick Thomas wrote: On Mar 5, 2016, at 8:20 PM, peperol...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi Rick, I'm in the same boat with a powerbook G4; no sound cards found. I found this a couple of weeks ago but I haven't give it a try yet. http://ppcluddite.blogspot.mx/2015/08/debian-kernel-with-

Re: Audio output for PowerMac G5

2016-03-05 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mar 5, 2016, at 8:20 PM, peperol...@yahoo.com wrote: > Hi Rick, > > I'm in the same boat with a powerbook G4; no sound cards found. > > I found this a couple of weeks ago but I haven't give it a try yet. > > http://ppcluddite.blogspot.mx/2015/08/debian-kernel-with-sound-fix.html?m=1 > > I'

Re: Audio output for PowerMac G5

2016-03-05 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mar 5, 2016, at 9:03 PM, Dan DeVoto wrote: > Let us know if adding the snd-aoa-i2sbus module works on a G5. With that module loaded, I used alsamixer to choose soundcard "0 SoundByLayout" and un-muting everything in sight. I got sound output but it's "gavelly" -- it's broken up. It sound

Re: Audio output for PowerMac G5 - a bit more background

2016-03-05 Thread Rick Thomas
Some details... I'm currently using Peter's "4.4.0-rc7-powerpc64 #1" kernel on an otherwise plain vanilla Debian Stretch base. I seem to remember that Peter has a 4.5.0-rc2 kernel that may have some fixes for sound in it that aren't in his 4.4.0-rc7 kernel, but I can't find the link to downloa

Re: Audio output for PowerMac G5

2016-03-05 Thread peperoland
Hi Rick, I'm in the same boat with a powerbook G4; no sound cards found. I found this a couple of weeks ago but I haven't give it a try yet. http://ppcluddite.blogspot.mx/2015/08/debian-kernel-with-sound-fix.html?m=1 I'm a musician so I might give it a try this week too. Regards Jose. > On 0

Audio output for PowerMac G5

2016-03-05 Thread Rick Thomas
I have an ancient PowerMac G5 dual-core 2.0GHZ (PowerMac11,2) machine I'd like to use to help Hanno Zulla test his new "Sonic Pi" software on bigendian hardware. But alsamixer tells me I have no audio cards and no audio devices. Or, to put it another way: > rbthomas@bigal:~$ ls -l /proc/asound/