no sound - powerbook g4

[Christian Walther]

Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 09:23:09AM +0100, Christian Walther wrote:
>> shrek-m at gmx.de wrote:
>>> clean install fc3t2 (re1115.0) - powerbook g4
>>> sound does not work.
>>
>> On my Powerbook G4 Ti 867MHz, sound worked after I added the following
>> to /etc/modprobe.conf:
>>
>> alias snd-card-0 dmasound_pmac
>> install dmasound_pmac /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install dmasound_pmac &&
>> /usr/sbin/alsactl restore >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
>> remove dmasound_pmac { /usr/sbin/alsactl store >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ;
>> }; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove dmasound_pmac
>>
>> I've no idea what's the difference between dmasound_pmac and
>> snd_powermac
>
> dmasound_pmac is the OSS version, snd_powermac the ALSA version.

Right, I figured that out. And I also figured out that OSS seems to be 
old and ALSA a new-and-improved replacement for it, so I tried 
replacing dmasound_pmac with snd_powermac in modprobe.conf, and that 
worked too.

It only works halfways though, at the moment - I've discovered that 
XMMS and Mikmod can't produce sound at the same time (didn't try any 
other apps). But I'll have to read more about how sound works on Linux 
to try to fix that.

  -Christian