PM 7600 sound problem

[Daniel Gimpelevich]

This is a known YDL problem on all Macs. You just need to type 'modprobe
dmasound_pmac' as root and all will be well.
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"Consider that two wrongs never make a right, but that three do."
                                                        --National Lampoon

> From: "Julius Naim" <julius.naim@fairadsl.co.uk>
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> Newsgroups: gmane.linux.yellowdog.general
> Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 07:59:17 +0100
> Subject: FW: PM 7600 sound problem
> 
> 
> Hi
> 
> I posted this in the newbie list so apologies for double posting but it's just
> a quick question.
> 
> I can't get sound out of my 7600 on YDL 3.0.1.  Is there no sound driver for
> it?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Julius Naim
> 
> 
> 
> From: yellowdog-newbie-admin@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> [mailto:yellowdog-newbie-admin@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com] On Behalf Of
> Julius Naim
> Sent: 04 September 2004 17:54
> To: yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> Subject: PM 7600 sound problem
> 
> I recently installed YDL 3.01 on my PM 7600, specs are as follows;
> 
> CPU G3 500
> RAM 448 Mb
> 9GB SCSI HD on built in SCSI
> PCI USB/Firewire card (Ratoc PC1FU1P)
> PCI UW SCSI card (ADPT 2940)
> 9GB UW SCSI HD
> 
> Originally I had intended to install YDL on the UW SCSI HD however after
> installation and setting the BootX to sdb6 it would halt without finding the
> boot volume.
> 
> I switched everything around, moved Mac OS/BootX onto the UW SCSI and
> reinstalled YDL onto the built in SCSI, set BootX to sda6 but got the same
> message about mounting the boot volume.  Reporting:
> Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:06
> 
> I looked at http://www.ppckernel.org/ and downloaded
> linux-ydl-2.6-2.6.5.tar.gz <http://linux-ydl-2.6-2.6.5.tar.gz>  extracted the
> vmlinux file to the Linux kernels folder in the system folder and set it in
> BootX.
> 
> Now I've managed to successfully boot I get;
> 
> Sound server informational message:
> 
> Error while initializing the sound driver:
> 
> device /dev/dsp can't be opened (No such
> device or address)
> 
> The sound server will continue, using the null
> output device.
> 
> When I run the Soundcard Detection app it tells me "No soundcards were
> detected."
> 
> Please advise!
> 
>