Re: Sound on G4 tower, almost

On Sun, 21 Oct 2001, Dave Ray wrote:

Has anyone explored sound on the G4 towers? I
understand they use an 12c-based sound card similar to
the iBook2.

Texas, aka Tumbler. AFAIK exact same chipset as the iBook2's are outfitted
with.

I tried the iBook sound hack on the G4 tower to see
what happens. It appears to be partly successful. The
sound driver loads and registers the deq, but when I
try to do anything that writes to the device I get
silence and "can't locate module..." errors in the
syslog. Below are the details. I'm guessing the hack
is partly successful but the "tumbler" is failing.

Looking at the messages, it looks like everything is loading and initing
correctly. The messages below, however:

Oct 19 20:54:38 garuda modprobe: modprobe: Can't
locate module sound-slot-1
Oct 19 20:54:38 garuda modprobe: modprobe: Can't
locate module sound-service-1-0

seem to indicate something is trying to open /dev/mixer1 instead of
/dev/mixer0 (which /dev/mixer should either be a symlink pointing to, or a
dev node with the same major/minor numbers). What does your /dev/mixer
look like? It shuld be major 14, minor 0. Check
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt for all the major/minor numbers
for devices (including sound devices).

In other words, the Texas chip is probably functioning fine - you have to
tell it to do something now, though...

Derrik Pates      |   Sysadmin, Douglas School   |    #linuxOS on EFnet
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