[gentoo-ppc-user] alsa sound problem

[gentoo-ppc-user] alsa sound problem

[Meredith Shepherd]

First off, I'm running gentoo linux (kernel version 2.6) on a 900mhz
iBook, installed from a stage 3 2004.0 tarball.  I installed alsa
according to the guide on gentoo.com, but devfs is not creating
/dev/mixer, and I can't figure out why.  Any ideas?  What files should I
post?
Thanks,
Meredith


Meredith Shepherd
mshepherd@simons-rock.edu

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Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] alsa sound problem

[David Bélanger]

On Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 04:13:28PM -0400, Meredith Shepherd wrote:
> First off, I'm running gentoo linux (kernel version 2.6) on a 900mhz
> iBook, installed from a stage 3 2004.0 tarball.  I installed alsa
> according to the guide on gentoo.com, but devfs is not creating
> /dev/mixer, and I can't figure out why.  Any ideas?  What files should I
> post?
> Thanks,
> Meredith
> 

Did you check if the modules get loaded?  Some /dev/* files are added
only when the module is loaded.  The sound related module is something
like dmacsound and maybe others.  I'm not currently on my iBook so I
cannot check for exact things to do...

David

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Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] alsa sound problem

[David Bélanger]

On Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 04:13:28PM -0400, Meredith Shepherd wrote:
> First off, I'm running gentoo linux (kernel version 2.6) on a 900mhz
> iBook, installed from a stage 3 2004.0 tarball.  I installed alsa
> according to the guide on gentoo.com, but devfs is not creating
> /dev/mixer, and I can't figure out why.  Any ideas?  What files should I
> post?
> Thanks,
> Meredith

Hi,

I'm now on my iBook.

I added the following lines in my modules.conf:
alias /dev/dsp          dmasound_pmac
alias /dev/mixer        dmasound_pmac
These cause the module to be loaded whenever the device is referred.
Alternatively, they could be loaded at startup.

modules.conf is automatically generated with modutils read doc to know
how to do it.

Hope it helps,
David

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David Bélanger
Graduate Student
School of Computer Science
McGill University
Office: MC226

Web page:   http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~dbelan2/
Public key: http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~dbelan2/public_key.txt


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