Re: Newbie with intermittent sound problems on Lenny KDE system

2009-05-02 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Brian Durant [090503 00:18 +0200] > As I understand it, I should use that command to determine what is > wrong with the sound, when it doesn't function. It puts out a text log > output that needs to be looked through? If you think so, then install strace and read strace(1) before the fist use of

Re: Newbie with intermittent sound problems on Lenny KDE system

2009-05-02 Thread Brian Durant
As I understand it, I should use that command to determine what is wrong with the sound, when it doesn't function. It puts out a text log output that needs to be looked through? Cheers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: Newbie with intermittent sound problems on Lenny KDE system

2009-05-02 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Brian Durant [090502 19:09 +0200] > I am a newbie experiencing intermittent sound problems with Lenny KDE > installed on a G5. I have tried the following: > > $ strace -o sound.txt > bash: strace: command not found What is your problem? Did you expect to hear sond by that c

Newbie with intermittent sound problems on Lenny KDE system

2009-05-02 Thread Brian Durant
I am a newbie experiencing intermittent sound problems with Lenny KDE installed on a G5. I have tried the following: $ strace -o sound.txt bash: strace: command not found -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

Re: Ibook G4 ide/sound problems

2005-12-28 Thread [ATR]Dj-Death
It does not seem as a kernel bug to me, but something wrong in alsa userland ... -- Lionel Landwerlin / Dj-Death [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Lourd c'est bien Lourd c'est plus fiable S'il marche pas, on peut toujours assommer avec !" Boris le Hachoir -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: Ibook G4 ide/sound problems

2005-12-28 Thread [ATR]Dj-Death
Le mercredi 28 décembre 2005 à 12:07 +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt a écrit : > > Alsa driver yes (snd-powermac). > > I have got this error from xmms : > > > > ALSA lib timer_hw.c:269:(snd_timer_hw_open) extended read is not > > supported (SNDRV_TIMER_IOCTL_TREAD) > > > > Could it help ? > > Not

Re: Ibook G4 ide/sound problems

2005-12-27 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 16:41 +0100, [ATR]Dj-Death wrote: > Hi all > > I'm running 2.6.14 on my ibook for several weeks now, and I just find > some problem when playing sound with all player I tested (totem-xine, > rhythmbox, xmms, beep-media-player). When playing a mp3/ogg file the > player freeze/

Ibook G4 ide/sound problems

2005-12-27 Thread [ATR]Dj-Death
Hi all I'm running 2.6.14 on my ibook for several weeks now, and I just find some problem when playing sound with all player I tested (totem-xine, rhythmbox, xmms, beep-media-player). When playing a mp3/ogg file the player freeze/crash randomly. There is no error message neither /var/log/syslog an

sound problems in ibook G4

2004-12-02 Thread Jose A. Ortega Ruiz
hi. i'm having frequent troubles with sound drivers in my ibook G4 (kernel 2.6.9, sleep 6) and what seems to be their interaction with pbbuttonsd. every now and then, sound simply stops working, and i get kernel traces like this one: Oops: kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1] PREEMPT NIP: 000

ibbok2 700 sound problems after wakeup

2002-10-10 Thread prometheos
Hi, I have the problem,that my sound is currupted (ditorted) after wakeup. apm emulation is enabled, im using bens 2.4.20-pre9 kernel. anybody the same problem and/or solutions for this? thanks in advance guenter

Re: iBook2 500 Sound problems

2002-09-29 Thread Claas Langbehn
On Sat, 2002-09-28 at 15:31, SteveC wrote: > me too. i found that the module works [dmasound_pmac or whatever] but > compiling it gives sod-all > > this only happened on recent rsyncs... Now I tried the current bitkeeper Linux_2_4 rsync tree with the same kernel .config and the sound works again.

Re: iBook2 500 Sound problems

2002-09-28 Thread SteveC
* Claas Langbehn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello, > > > i am using the Benh-rsync kernel from today. > But I am somehow not able to get sound out > of my machine. me too. i found that the module works [dmasound_pmac or whatever] but compiling it gives sod-all this only happened on recent r

iBook2 500 Sound problems

2002-09-27 Thread Claas Langbehn
Hello, i am using the Benh-rsync kernel from today. But I am somehow not able to get sound out of my machine. could anyone who is also using it on an iBook2 (either 500 / 600 or 700) be so kind to mail me his .config file? That would be much easyer than finding the fault. Thanks, Claas

Re: sound problems with iBook2 Dual USB

2002-06-25 Thread Jesus Climent
On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 10:08:20AM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Mon, 2002-06-24 at 21:36, Jesus Climent wrote: > > > > I have configured my Apple iBook2 dual-USB with BenH0 kernel (Linux > > debian 2.4.19-pre10-ben0 #2 Sat Jun 22 10:14:44 EEST 2002 ppc unknown) > > and the sound works a bit st

Re: sound problems with iBook2 Dual USB

2002-06-25 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Mon, 2002-06-24 at 21:36, Jesus Climent wrote: > > I have configured my Apple iBook2 dual-USB with BenH0 kernel (Linux > debian 2.4.19-pre10-ben0 #2 Sat Jun 22 10:14:44 EEST 2002 ppc unknown) > and the sound works a bit strange. > > I can hear the output, but I cannot control the volume. If I

Re: sound problems with iBook2 Dual USB

2002-06-24 Thread Marc Menem
I have configured my Apple iBook2 dual-USB with BenH0 kernel (Linux debian 2.4.19-pre10-ben0 #2 Sat Jun 22 10:14:44 EEST 2002 ppc unknown) and the sound works a bit strange. I can hear the output, but I cannot control the volume. If I try it sound like those old amplifiers that scratch the vol

sound problems with iBook2 Dual USB

2002-06-24 Thread Jesus Climent
Hi. I have configured my Apple iBook2 dual-USB with BenH0 kernel (Linux debian 2.4.19-pre10-ben0 #2 Sat Jun 22 10:14:44 EEST 2002 ppc unknown) and the sound works a bit strange. I can hear the output, but I cannot control the volume. If I try it sound like those old amplifiers that scratch the v

NUBUS 7100 sound problems

2001-12-20 Thread Tom Callahan
Is it possible (I have been trying hard) to get sound to work on a PowerPC 7100. What modules do I need to run and where can I find them. I have a 2.4.4 and 2.4.5 kernel. I have a couple of dmasound modules that say that they were compiled for 2.4.2 and more compiled for 2.2.19 but I cannot get so

Re: Sound problems

2001-10-12 Thread Michael Schmitz
> > Hmmm aumix does run on my TiBook, and I can change the volume; > > albeit it increases _a_lot_ with minimal slider movement. I didn't have > > the opportunity to test it further since for me xmms w/ cdread has never > > produced anything else than noise. > > It's probably a logarithmic volu

Re: Sound problems

2001-10-11 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
>> Have you tried the main volume (there's an option about this in the xmms >> OSS output plugin preferences) and speakers mixers (in case you're using >> the internal speakers)? > >Well, considering he said that no mixer app will even start up, that gives >me the impression that mixer control isn'

Re: Sound problems

2001-10-11 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> >Yep. That's what I suspected. I suppose someone's gonna have to hack out a >driver for the Screamer's I2C control device on the PBG4 now too. >_Yikes_... as if DACA isn't enough of a pain (what with making the IDE bus >lock if you have the wrong timings!)... There's nothing like screamer I2C af

Re: Sound problems

2001-10-11 Thread Gregorio Gervasio Jr.
> On Thu, 11 Oct 2001 21:32:22 +0200 (CEST), Michel Lanners <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> said: [...] m> Hmmm aumix does run on my TiBook, and I can change the volume; m> albeit it increases _a_lot_ with minimal slider movement. I didn't have m> the opportunity to test it further since for m

Re: Sound problems

2001-10-11 Thread Derrik Pates
On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Michel Lanners wrote: > Hmmm aumix does run on my TiBook, and I can change the volume; > albeit it increases _a_lot_ with minimal slider movement. I didn't have > the opportunity to test it further since for me xmms w/ cdread has never > produced anything else than noise.

Re: Sound problems

2001-10-11 Thread Michel Lanners
On 11 Oct, this message from Derrik Pates echoed through cyberspace: > On 11 Oct 2001, Michel Dänzer wrote: > >> Have you tried the main volume (there's an option about this in the xmms >> OSS output plugin preferences) and speakers mixers (in case you're using >> the internal speakers)? > > Wel

Re: Sound problems

2001-10-11 Thread John Goerzen
Derrik Pates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > KMix doesn't depend on aRts working. If it won't work, it's because it's > having problems talking to the mixer device. aumix starting, otoh, may or > may not be a good sign. Maybe install 'aumix-gtk' instead, so you have a > GUI available, and see if you

Re: Sound problems

2001-10-11 Thread John Goerzen
Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > aumix does start up but it doesn't work for me. However, that could > > just be due to my own incompetance wrt not knowing what to set or how > > to drive aumix. > > Tried to help you there... 'Vol' is the headphone out, 'Spkr' is the > speakers, the

Re: Sound problems

2001-10-11 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Thu, 2001-10-11 at 17:48, Derrik Pates wrote: > On 11 Oct 2001, John Goerzen wrote: > > > Ick. Wave good-bye to all the non-esound/arts stuff out there, I > > guess. > > Yeah, that was what I thought. But reendianizing samples isn't hard to do, > and I guess the OSS API standard specifically

Re: Sound problems

2001-10-11 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Thu, 2001-10-11 at 21:14, John Goerzen wrote: > Derrik Pates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On 11 Oct 2001, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > > > Have you tried the main volume (there's an option about this in the xmms > > > OSS output plugin preferences) and speakers mixers (in case you're using

Re: Sound problems

2001-10-11 Thread Derrik Pates
On 11 Oct 2001, John Goerzen wrote: > I said that xmix wouldn't start up and that the kde mixer stuff is > useless because of arts not working. aumix does start up but it > doesn't work for me. However, that could just be due to my own > incompetance wrt not knowing what to set or how to drive a

Re: Sound problems

2001-10-11 Thread John Goerzen
Derrik Pates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well, considering he said that no mixer app will even start up, that gives I should also add that the reason xmix won't start is related to X or shared libaries, not the audio system. -- John > me the impression that mixer control isn't working on Scre

Re: Sound problems

2001-10-11 Thread John Goerzen
Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 2001-10-11 at 19:46, John Goerzen wrote: > > > > An update -- xmms works fine on my tibook, with one exception. It's > > volume control has zero effect. This might confirm my earlier > > thoughts about that. Unfortunately, arts doesn't work s

Re: Sound problems

2001-10-11 Thread Wilhelm *Rafial* Fitzpatrick
On 11 Oct 2001, John Goerzen wrote: An update -- xmms works fine on my tibook, with one exception. It's > volume control has zero effect. I don't know if this will be of use to anyone, but gmix works fine on my tibook (and has for many months) using benh kernels. The speaker slider cont

Re: Sound problems

2001-10-11 Thread John Goerzen
Derrik Pates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 11 Oct 2001, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > Have you tried the main volume (there's an option about this in the xmms > > OSS output plugin preferences) and speakers mixers (in case you're using > > the internal speakers)? > > Well, considering he said th

Re: Sound problems

2001-10-11 Thread Derrik Pates
On 11 Oct 2001, Michel Dänzer wrote: > Have you tried the main volume (there's an option about this in the xmms > OSS output plugin preferences) and speakers mixers (in case you're using > the internal speakers)? Well, considering he said that no mixer app will even start up, that gives me the im

Re: Sound problems

2001-10-11 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Thu, 2001-10-11 at 19:46, John Goerzen wrote: > > An update -- xmms works fine on my tibook, with one exception. It's > volume control has zero effect. This might confirm my earlier > thoughts about that. Unfortunately, arts doesn't work so my usual > mixer software won't work, xmix doesn't

Re: Sound problems

2001-10-11 Thread John Goerzen
Derrik Pates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 11 Oct 2001, John Goerzen wrote: > > > Keywest device found: /[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > i2c-core.o: adapter keywest i2c registered as adapter 0. > > Keywest device found: /[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > i2c-cor

Re: Sound problems

2001-10-11 Thread Derrik Pates
On 11 Oct 2001, John Goerzen wrote: > Keywest device found: /[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > i2c-core.o: adapter keywest i2c registered as adapter 0. > Keywest device found: /[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > i2c-core.o: adapter keywest i2c registered as adapter 1. Yep

Re: Sound problems

2001-10-11 Thread John Goerzen
Derrik Pates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yay. I'm sure it's ALSO using an I2C-based mixer control arrangement, > which is, I'm sure, different from Texas/Tumbler (iBook2) and DACA > (iBook). Can you enable the i2c-keywest driver under the I2C configuration > options, and let me know how many I2C

Re: Sound problems

2001-10-11 Thread Derrik Pates
On 11 Oct 2001, John Goerzen wrote: > An update -- xmms works fine on my tibook, with one exception. It's > volume control has zero effect. This might confirm my earlier > thoughts about that. Unfortunately, arts doesn't work so my usual > mixer software won't work, xmix doesn't even excute on

Re: Sound problems

2001-10-11 Thread John Goerzen
Derrik Pates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: An update -- xmms works fine on my tibook, with one exception. It's volume control has zero effect. This might confirm my earlier thoughts about that. Unfortunately, arts doesn't work so my usual mixer software won't work, xmix doesn't even excute on ppc

Re: Sound problems

2001-10-11 Thread John Goerzen
Derrik Pates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > allowed. The plan is eventually to remove all the sample-conversion code, > and only allow the sample formats that the hardware knows, expecting > userspace to do the conversion work. Ick. Wave good-bye to all the non-esound/arts stuff out there, I gues

Re: Sound problems

2001-10-11 Thread Derrik Pates
On 11 Oct 2001, John Goerzen wrote: > Ick. Wave good-bye to all the non-esound/arts stuff out there, I > guess. Yeah, that was what I thought. But reendianizing samples isn't hard to do, and I guess the OSS API standard specifically makes allowance for the driver asking for a different format if

Re: Sound problems

2001-10-11 Thread John Goerzen
Derrik Pates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I haven't tried VLC on anything, so I don't know about this. The > developers of VideoLan, however, probably aren't making their client obey > the driver's request for big-endian samples instead of little-endian > samples. It seems that very few programs

Re: Sound problems

2001-10-11 Thread Derrik Pates
On 11 Oct 2001, John Goerzen wrote: > It seems that very few programs do. Perhaps it would be easier to > make the kernel driver accept little-endian samples, do the conversion > itself, and post those to the driver thanto go on a hunt for all the > poorly-written software out there? Hahahah...

Re: Sound problems

2001-10-10 Thread Derrik Pates
On 10 Oct 2001, John Goerzen wrote: > I've got a tibook G4 running sid and benh's latest kernels. I've > loaded the dmasound_pmac module and it seems to be OK. However I have > lots of troubles making it work. For instance, when KDE starts, it > complains: > > Sound server fatal error: > Error

Sound problems

2001-10-10 Thread John Goerzen
Hi, I've got a tibook G4 running sid and benh's latest kernels. I've loaded the dmasound_pmac module and it seems to be OK. However I have lots of troubles making it work. For instance, when KDE starts, it complains: Sound server fatal error: Error while initializing the sound driver: Can't se

iMac-D sound problems

2000-06-29 Thread Martijn van de Streek
I've been having problems with newer kernels and sound on my rev. D iMac. On a pre-built 2.2.14pre9 everything works fine, but with all newer kernels (rsyncing and plain) all the dmasound driver tells me is 'DMA Sound Driver: Interrupt initialization failed' The latest kernels I tried were 2.2.

Re: sound problems with G3 powerbook

2000-05-02 Thread sam
> I tried several mixer programs, and the only one that seemed to work was > kmix. Unfortunately, that uses non-free qt. If nothing else works, you > could make a small program that issues a mixer ioctl to turn up the volume. Try aumix. On my Wallstreet Powerbook G3, There were two different sou

Re: sound problems with G3 powerbook

2000-05-02 Thread David Brown
On Wed, May 03, 2000 at 11:09:26AM +1200, Stephen Judd wrote: > I've got a /dev/audio, and a /dev/dsp. I tried to cat a .au file to > /dev/audio, but nothing happens. I haven't had good luck with cat. xmms works well, though. So does mpg123. > Looking at the gnome mixer, all the volume levels

sound problems with G3 powerbook

2000-05-02 Thread Stephen Judd
Problem: I have no sound at all, at least, no volume, anyway. I'm using the latest 2.2.15pre19 kernel from Paul McKerras. I see this message at boot: DMA sound driver installed, using 4 buffers of 32k. cat /dev/sndstat yields: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /dev/sndstat PowerMac (AWACS rev 3) DM