Re: Sound on G4 tower, success
From: Dave Ray <hidden>
Date: 2001-10-23 23:38:21
--- Derrik Pates <dpates@dsdk12.net> wrote:What errors are those? Nothing you've posted so far looks like an error to me.quoted
Oct 19 20:53:48 garuda kernel: tumbler:no deviceThat's from not having a devnode for "amp-mute", "headphone-mute" or "headphone-detect". I don't think that's a problem.quoted
Oct 19 20:53:48 garuda kernel: i2c-keywest: AckStatusquoted
on addr expected but got: 0x09 on addr: 0x34That's just because the tas3001 driver code (the mixer for the Tumbler/Texas) is searching all available I2C buses, and the first one doesn't have what it's looking for.
Thanks for your insight to these error messages. After seeing your confidence that syslog looked okay, I hypothesized that the output jacks may be live even though the built-in speaker is dead silent. I plugged the output audio jacks to an amplifier, and voila, sound is is working there just fine. Under MacOS (and Open Firmware) the internal speaker is on by default, and turns off only when the audio jack is physically connected. I assumed it was a hardware switch and that if sound is working, I should expect to hear it on the internal speaker. Not the case apparently with dmasound_pmac. The speaker is completely dead, and the output jack is always on, regardless of whether a plug is connected. Is this a bug? (Don't get me wrong, I'm delighted that it works!) This should go in some FAQ. Who's maintaining an FAQ for the Mac G4 towers? Thanks for all your help looking over my data, Dave ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/