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How do I get sound working on my LinuxPPC box?
Check out my Sound with LinuxPPC HOWTO, at this address:
http://www.wpi.edu/~huberj/linuxppc/sound.txt 
 
Josh Huber <huberj@wpi.edu>

A note:
As of now, the latest kernels do NOT support sound.  When upgrading to
version 2.1.36 and 2.1.42, Paul ended up breaking the sound support.

Keep your eye out for updates on the mailing list!
huberj@wpi.edu
Sound on the PReP machines works - the details are in
Documentation/powerpc/sound.txt in the recent kernel source 
trees.

cort@cs.nmt.edu
cort@cs.nmt.edu
Seems to work with 2.2 series kernels. On my PowerBook G3 Series, with sound compiled as modules, I can do 'insmod soundcore' and then 'insmod dmasound', which seems to get it working. then 'sndvolmix -c' allows cds to play.
hcaley@loomer.com
Seems to work with 2.2 series kernels. On my PowerBook G3 Series, with sound compiled as modules, I can do 'insmod soundcore' and then 'insmod dmasound', which seems to get it working. then 'sndvolmix -c' allows cds to play.
hcaley@loomer.com
I have sound working on my Linux Box, a B&W G3 400, it just kinda started working. by just running something with sound BUT I'm wondering if anyone knows how to properly get it to work... because my situation is, I didnt' do anything to make sound work. assumed it would just work. but i'm wondering if there's something i have to do because i only have 1 channel of sound system wide(usually in X I am). Like: I run xmms and it's playing music, reaches the end of a song and some other program with sound will snag the privliges away from it(what it seems like to me) and I feel like i've gotten the entire X windows system to hang from that kidna problem, competition over the sound channel. anyone know how to properly get normal sound to work? multi-channels, mixing(the Gnome mixer says no mixer, is sound compiled in kernel?) i'm using 2.2.6 kernel for Blue G3 rev2. -Jeremy.Knope@umit.maine.edu
Jeremy.Knope@umit.maine.edu
I tried everything listed here and the commands didn't work. I'm running Linux/PPC 2000 Q4 on a G3 450Mhz desktop. I have no sound working.
Here's what I get when I run the install module commands: <PRE> bash-2.04# insmod soundcore insmod: soundcore: no module by that name found bash-2.04# insmod dmasound insmod: dmasound: no module by that name found bash-2.04# sndvolmix -c Segmentation fault bash-2.04# uname -a Linux myhost 2.2.18-4hBOOT #1 Thu Dec 21 14:24:03 MST 2000 ppc unknown bash-2.04# cat /etc/issue
Linux/PPC 2000 Q4 Packages current to December 25 2000 Kernel 2.2.18-4hBOOT on a ppc
</PRE>
jackal@no-spam.com
I tried everything listed here and the commands didn't work. I'm running Linux/PPC 2000 Q4 on a G3 450Mhz desktop. I have no sound working.
Here's what I get when I run the install module commands:
bash-2.04# insmod soundcore insmod: soundcore: no module by that name found bash-2.04# insmod dmasound insmod: dmasound: no module by that name found bash-2.04# sndvolmix -c Segmentation fault bash-2.04# uname -a Linux myhost 2.2.18-4hBOOT #1 Thu Dec 21 14:24:03 MST 2000 ppc unknown bash-2.04# cat /etc/issue
Linux/PPC 2000 Q4 Packages current to December 25 2000 Kernel 2.2.18-4hBOOT on a ppc

jackal@no-spam.com
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