Re: Sound on PowerMac G5

2005-05-09 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 11:10 +0100, Noah Slater wrote: > Wow, thanks for clearing that up - you have no idea how many days I > have been trying to find this out on google. > > Excuse my ignorance if I ask you a further question. With analoug > suport, would my G5 be able to play music via say rhyth

Re: Sound on PowerMac G5

2005-05-09 Thread Noah Slater
Wow, thanks for clearing that up - you have no idea how many days I have been trying to find this out on google. Excuse my ignorance if I ask you a further question. With analoug suport, would my G5 be able to play music via say rhythmbox or another media player? I don't realy know much about soun

Re: Sound on PowerMac G5

2005-05-09 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 10:47 +0100, Noah Slater wrote: > > Simply that the current powermac alsa sound driver doesn't have support > > for the G5. I implemented some simple support in later kernels which > > should make analog work on some desktop G5s, but not digital yet. It's > > in 2.6.12-rc4 >

Re: Sound on PowerMac G5

2005-05-09 Thread Noah Slater
> Simply that the current powermac alsa sound driver doesn't have support > for the G5. I implemented some simple support in later kernels which > should make analog work on some desktop G5s, but not digital yet. It's > in 2.6.12-rc4 Aha, thank you for the info. I am a little confused by what you

Re: Sound on PowerMac G5

2005-05-08 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Sun, 2005-05-08 at 15:05 +0100, Noah Slater wrote: > Hello, > > I am having problems getting sound to work on my G5 powermac. > > I am using the prebuilt 2.6.11-power4-smp kernel and have used apt to get > alsa. > > Using alsaconf to set up sound support (or using "modprobe > snd-powermac")

Sound on PowerMac G5

2005-05-08 Thread Noah Slater
Hello, I am having problems getting sound to work on my G5 powermac. I am using the prebuilt 2.6.11-power4-smp kernel and have used apt to get alsa. Using alsaconf to set up sound support (or using "modprobe snd-powermac") I get the following error message: FATAL: Error inserting snd_powermac (

Re: Sound on PowerMac G5

2005-04-13 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 11:06 +0200, Stephan Meyen wrote: > Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 17:36 +0200, Stephan Meyen wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> [...] > > > > I posted a patch to the powermac Alsa driver to linuxppc64-dev a couple > > of days ago that adds basic analog

Re: Sound on PowerMac G5

2005-04-13 Thread Stephan Meyen
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 17:36 +0200, Stephan Meyen wrote: >> Hello, >> >> [...] > > I posted a patch to the powermac Alsa driver to linuxppc64-dev a couple > of days ago that adds basic analog support for some desktop G5s. > However, if yours is one of those new sin

Re: Sound on PowerMac G5

2005-04-12 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 17:36 +0200, Stephan Meyen wrote: > Hello, > > I bought a PowerMac G5 just 2 month ago and everything goes fine - except > sound (what a surprise). I pretty much understand that Apple uses > several different onboard-chipsets for sound. I also understand that my > chipset is

Sound on PowerMac G5

2005-04-12 Thread Stephan Meyen
Hello, I bought a PowerMac G5 just 2 month ago and everything goes fine - except sound (what a surprise). I pretty much understand that Apple uses several different onboard-chipsets for sound. I also understand that my chipset is behind a bridge, so lspci won't tell me too much. My dmesg tells me

Re: Sound on powermac G5, anybody ?

2004-11-02 Thread jaspal
Michal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > Does anyone know of any progress on the issue of getting sound working > on the G5? > > Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > All of the details can be found in the darwin drivers, they are open > > source. > > I would be glad

Re: Sound on powermac G5, anybody ?

2004-11-01 Thread Michal
Does anyone know of any progress on the issue of getting sound working on the G5? Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > All of the details can be found in the darwin drivers, they are open > source. I would be glad to spend some time on this, if I knew even where to start :( Michal

Re: Sound on powermac G5, anybody ?

2004-10-02 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Fri, 2004-10-01 at 19:10, Roland Laurès wrote: > ok ff00 is visibly unknown to the kernel (i built the pack of id so it > would know it if someone in the community know it) But we can see K2 on > these lines... So i think it is the SATA/ATA controller with 2 address > (one by bus) > But the to

Re: Sound on powermac G5, anybody ?

2004-10-01 Thread Roland Laurès
Hi, Ok i have the same problem with the 2.6.8.1. But i see something in the lspci log : 0001:01:07.0 ff00: Apple Computer Inc. K2 KeyLargo Mac/IO (rev 20) 0001:03:0d.0 ff00: Apple Computer Inc. K2 ATA/100 0001:05:0c.0 IDE interface: ServerWorks: Unknown device 0240 0001:05:0c.1 IDE interface: Serv

Sound on powermac G5, anybody ?

2004-06-01 Thread jaspal
Hi, I have to confess first I've got gentoo on my powermac g5. So if it is rude to ask on another list then please tell me and I will polietly be on my way ;-) Ok i have kernel 2.6.6 (from kernel.org) and I enabled alsa and powermac modules. However, when I do modprobe snd-powermac FATAL: Error