Whats up with iBook G4 sound?

[Andrew]

On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 14:56, Cian Duffy wrote:
> I've got a new G4 iBook (October 2004 revision) During the
> installation process, the sound tester worked fine, however its not
> been working since. KDE gave some error when loading Arts the first
> time that I accidentally ignored, and in the shutdown sequence, aumix
> gives an error on attempting to close down.
> 
> I upgraded the kernel to 2.6.9 as I wanted to use the iBook sleep mode
> patch that BenH has recently produced. On this kernel, the
> dmasound_pmac driver refuses to load, at all
> 
> So if the driver worked during the installer, why isn't it working
> now? Is it likely to work if loaded as a module rather than if
> compiled into the monolithic kernel?
> 
> Cian

yes. modules are your friends.