[slackintosh-users] Re: audio card on ibook g4

  • From: Dirk Arlt <dirkarlt@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: slackintosh-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 00:48:34 +0100

* "Armando Brandolese" <ing.fav@xxxxxxxxx> schrieb:

> i'm runnin' slack.OSh 11.
> i just installed and i didn't change anythin' in configuration files.
> hotplug doesn't find audio card at boot but i tried modprobe snd_powermac
> and it gives no error (i checked lsmod too), so i "pumped up the volume" but
> i can't ear any sound :-(
> 
> 
> 2006/11/24, Marco Bonetti <marco.bonetti@xxxxxxxxx>:
> >
> > On 11/24/06, Armando Brandolese <ing.fav@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > is there any easy way to make it work or should i rebuild the kernel or
> > > there's no hope?
> > which version of slackintosh are you running?
> > alsaconf *SHOULD* recognize your card, as snd_powermac has been built
> > into our kernels.
> > If you're running 11.0, however, you should take care of the changes
> > made into the module management:
> > http://www.slackware.com/changelog/current.php?cpu=i386 , scroll down
> > to Sun Mar 26 20:42:28 CST 2006

alsa does not work for me too (iBook2 USB 500mhz), putting
"snd_powermac" to /etc/modules does it. But I am not using multiple
Sounds at once (my only "sound-using-app" is XMMS).

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