mac Mini (PPC) - No Audio

[mgulbran]

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[GallComp]

Can you be more specific. System specs, OS and what did you do with the system... Its hard to someone to help you if you only post a single sentence...

[mgulbran]

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[mgulbran]

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[ueulo]

Hello

I just install FC5 on Mac Mini G4 and im having problems with sound too.I install updates but no sucess.

Audio Devices
Automatic detection of the sound card did not work. Audio will not be available on the system.
You can inspect /root/scsound.log and file a new bug
at http://bugzilla.redhat.com.

PLease help

Same problem here. "/sbin/modprobe snd-powermac" works but on reboots it goes back to no audio and for whatever reason vlc crashes after said command. I don't know how to insert the snd-powermac module into the kernel on bootup. I know with ubuntu sound just works out of the box so I might just go back to ubuntu's new version.

[mgulbran]

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http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail...ch/000802.html

Quick-fix:
Add the following line to "/etc/sysconfig/modules/udev-stw.modules":
/sbin/modprobe snd-powermac

I tried this and it worked, however the mixer volume doesn't work. And select the ALSA output on your app becuz without manually changing from auto to ALSA, vlc crashes on me - not sure about other apps.

http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-doc...odule=powermac

I haven't tried the longer route yet. It's silly how much must be done just to get sound working. The longer route might actually enable the ALSA mixer.

[ueulo]

I install ubuntu 5.10 and everything works fine

[grndplane]

traders :-)

[AliasN]

Originally Posted by mgulbran

Hey look, I fixed it. All I had to do was remove Fedora Core 5 and put OSX 10.4 back on it.

Hey look, being rude and sarcastic will get you nowhere. It makes people less and less interested in helping you. Also, just because you figured that saying Mac Mini - No Audio would be good enough, doesn't mean it would be.

I'm pretty sure that with the latest ALSA kernel drivers, full mac mini support (no lag, no missing mixer support) is included via the toonie drivers (which should be built as part of snd-powermac). I haven't been able to try the new fedora core yet (because half of my display is pushed to the side), but usually to autoload a module you put it in /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-(major).(minor). For example, on Gentoo, I'd put a line that had 'snd-powermac' on it (without quotes) in the file /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6. I'm not sure if this would work in FC5 (cause I haven't been able to use it yet). I'm also positive that ALSA includes a way to emulate OSS, so your OSS-only apps (Ex skype, if it was for Linux PPC) can still work on an ALSA-only system.

[mgulbran]

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