YDL4: ALSA configuration

[Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D.]

In previous versions of YDL I knew what to do:

* download and build the ALSA code 
  [drivers(kernel modules), libraries, utilities]

* edit /etc/modules.conf

        alias sound-slot-0 dmasound_pmac
        alias sound-slot-1 dmasound_pmac
        alias sound-service-0-0 dmasound_pmac
        alias sound-service-0-3 dmasound_pmac
        alias sound-service-1-0 dmasound_pmac
        #
        # ALSA portion
        alias char-major-116 snd
        #
        # OSS/Free portion
        alias char-major-14 soundcore

* reboot

* use 'lsmod' to make sure sound drivers loaded as expected

* remember to turn up the sound...

The linux-2.6.x kernel source now includes ALSA driver support. YDL4
ships with the appropriate[maybe???] drivers(kernel modules), libraries
and utilities:

        alsa-lib-1.0.3a-2
        alsa-lib-devel-1.0.3a-2
        alsa-utils-1.0.3-1i

Configuration directives that used to reside in /etc/modules.conf appear
to have migrated over to /etc/modprobe.conf.

I have tried a number of different modifications to /etc/modprobe.conf
without success, which is why I have posted the question to the list.
Hopefully, someone at Terrasoft will show us the way.


-Joseph

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On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 09:19, Cian Duffy wrote:
> A lot of people want to know that...
> 
> It seems very few people have working sound at all on YDL4, except in
> the installer. My brand new iBook has this problem too. I think I
> remember having sound on first boot though, or at least Konsole seemed
> to be making noises when I tried tab-completionv - it was 3AM however.
> 
> I've tried recompiling the kernel, upgrading to 2.6.9, etc. Nothing
> gets me sound
> 
> Is there going to be an errata soon that gives us working sound?
> 
> Cian
> 
> On Mon, 06 Dec 2004 09:14:55 -0500, Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D.
> <joseph_sacco at comcast.net> wrote:
> > System:
> > * PowerMac [silver] with dual G4 533MHz G4 CPU's, 1 GB RAM, SCSI drives
> > 
> > =========================================================================
> > Question:
> > 
> > What changes must be made to /etc/modprobe.conf to get ALSA to work?
> > 
> > -Joseph
> > 
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> > 
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