Fedora Core 3 works on the Mac Mini

[Mike MacCana]

Wade Mealing wrote:

>On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 14:01:49 +1100, Mike MacCana <mmaccana at redhat.com> wrote:
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>>Brian S McGee wrote:
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>>>Mike Wrote:
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>>>>2. Wade: installed system-config-soundcard-1.2.10-2wm (thanks for your
>>>>work), the soundcard is detected (the tools says it'll use
>>>>snd_powermac)but I can't hear anything when the test sound is
>>>>played (I hear there's
>>>>something weird with volume control on the card - maybe that's
>>>>it?). On
>>>>the console, I get
>>>>'amixer: Mixer attach default error: No such device'
>>>>I know this sounds silly, but running strace doesn't seem to show the
>>>>device its looking for. Maybe I'm blind.
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>>>>Mike
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Thanks for your reply.

>Ok, I have those files on my ibook, what model machine are you running.
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Its a Mac Mini 1.4Hhz.
The MacIO PCI device shows up as:
     0001:10:17.0 Class ff00: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo/Intrepid Mac I/O

The soundcard, from /etc/sysconfig/hwconf
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class: AUDIO
bus: MACIO
detached: 0
driver: snd_powermac
desc: "Apple Computer Inc.|PowerMac Sound"

(wish there was an lsmacio...)

>What do you have in your /dev/snd directory, 
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crw-------  1 mikem root 116,  0 Feb  8 13:00 controlC0
crw-------  1 mikem root 116, 33 Feb  8 13:00 timer
And that's all.

>do you have a /dev/audio or /dev/dsp ?
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No, neither.

>Can you also dump me the output of amixer command ?
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[root at nailbox ~]# amixer
amixer: Mixer attach default error: No such device

And that's all. Is this just a matter of some missing udev rules?

Mike