sound problem on imac dv

[Ben Buchanan]

Andrew,
now sounds play fine, but I still get a static sound coming from the 
speakers. Could this be to do with the microphone, and if so how do I 
mute it?
Thanks
Ben
On 16/06/2004, at 2:26 PM, Andrew wrote:

> On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 21:56, Ben Buchanan wrote:
>> <excerpt>
>>
>> I have installed YDL 3.01 on an imac DV. When KDE is starting up after
>> I boot up I get the
>> error<fontfamily><param>Verdana</param><x-tad-bigger>:
>>
>>  error initialising sound driver. device /dev/dsp can't be opened (no
>> such device).
>>
>> Once logged in to KDE I can choose sound card detection in the KDE
>> menu and it detects the sound card: vendor=Apple model=DMASOUND
>> module=dmasound_pmac. Clicking yes fixes the sound problem, but then
>> at next login I have to do it again. How do I fix this?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Ben</x-tad-bigger></fontfamily></excerpt>
>
> This problem is specific to KDE. Neither GNOME, WindowMaker or even
> blackbox have this problem (on my computer at least). Feel free to
> correct me if Im wrong (I like that, really!)
>
> Its a very easy fix, indeed. Simply open, as root, </etc/rc.d/rc.local>
> and add 'modprobe dmasound_pmac' at the bottom of it.
>
> Here is the detailed procedure:
>
> Spawn a terminal. 'konsole' is appropriate since you are running KDE 
> but
> you may want to use xterm or whatever else terminal program you like...
> same apply for the text editor (kwrite, nedit, gedit, emacs... ).
> Personally, I felt in love with 'nedit'.
>
> ]$ su
> password:
> ]# nedit /etc/rc.d/rc.local
>
> ...this is where you insert 'modprobe dmasound_pmac' at the end of the
> file then save the changes and exit the text editor. It should look
> quite (if not exactly) similar to this:
>
> --start of modified </etc/rc.d/rc.local>
> #!/bin/sh
> #
> # This script will be executed *after* all the other init scripts.
> # You can put your own initialization stuff in here if you don't
> # want to do the full Sys V style init stuff.
>
> touch /var/lock/subsys/local
>
> modprobe dmasound_pmac
> --end of modified </etc/rc.d/rc.local>
>
> ]# exit
>
> You should be fine from now on!
>
> -Andrew
>
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