Sound problems with MOL on an OldWorld G3

[Marc Coevoet]

there are 3 revs, there is one bogus, at least ..

y're lucky


Op 25-jan-06 om 17:58 heeft Jose Medeiros het volgende geschreven:

> Sounds like you have a hardware problem. I also have an older
> Macintosh " Biege g3 300 mhz " and it works fine with Mac Os 10.3 ands
> 10.4, however I used Xpostfacto to intsall it.
> http://eshop.macsales.com/OSXCenter/XPostFacto/
>
> You also failed to mention if the sound card is working under OS 9,
> does it work correctly with OS 9?
>
> Jose :-)
>
>
> On 1/25/06, Risto Suominen <risto.suominen at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I installed MOL 0.9.70 on my OldWorld PowerMac G3. It seems usable,
>> but the sound doesn't work. I run Ubuntu 4.10 with kernel 2.6.8.1, and
>> I compiled MOL from source. The problems are dependent on the guest
>> operating system:
>>
>> To be able to get Mac OS 9 to boot, I had to extract the ROM from
>> another machine, a PowerMac 7600. With it, and oftree.8500, it boots
>> with 'startmol --oldworld'. I put the Mol-audio extension to the
>> Extensions folder. Maybe this was wrong? Is it only for NewWorld
>> machines? Because when I start the Sound Control Panel, I get an error
>> message on the linux terminal window, something like: Cannot find
>> mol-audio node. I assume this refers to an oftree node. And: Cannot
>> route interrupt for mol-audio. I don't remember the exact words.
>>
>> With OS X 10.2 I'm somehow closer to success. Maybe the machine is
>> just too slow (233 MHz). I tried to produce sound by playing an MP3 in
>> iTunes. When about 3 min. of a total of 3:15 has gone, unexpectedly,
>> the sound starts, first in small pieces, and getting better.
>>
>> In both cases, I get no startboing. I tried with different versions,
>> with and without OSS and ALSA, when compiling MOL. I have both ALSA
>> modules and ALSA-OSS compatibility layer loaded in the kernel. Am I
>> alone trying to run MOL on an OldWorld Mac? Any help and ideas are
>> welcome.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Risto Suominen
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