Subject: RE: Sound on a G4
From: Maurice van Steensel (mvanstee@baserv.uci.kun.nl)
Date: Thu Apr 27 2000 - 09:35:02 MDT
On 27-04-2000 at 08:52, gary@iusb.edu (Gary Browning) wrote:
> Okay, that makes sense... but how can I get YDL 1.2
> to pull its audio off the IDE cable via DMA? Or is it just
> not possible at this time?
>
> Thanks,
> Gary
>
> At 07:55 PM 4/26/2000 -0800, you wrote:
> >This is also the same issue with any new iMac, iBook's, and Powerbook
> >Firewires. The new systems pull the audio tracks off of the CD's digitally
> >and then convert them to audio.
> >
> >Jeff Ridder
> >jridder@gci.net
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Jim Cole [mailto:greyleaf@yggdrasill.net]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2000 5:01 PM
> > > To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> > > Subject: Re: Sound on a G4
> > >
> > >
> > > Gary Browning's bits of Wed, 26 Apr 2000 translated to:
> > >
> > > >KDE and GNOME, I cannot get audio CDs to play. The CD
> > > >spins up, the CD Player app counts tracks/timing; however,
> > > >there is absolutely no sound. Also xmms remains quiet.
> > >
> > > I encountered the same problem with audio CD's on my G4.
> > > Someone on the list pointed out that the drives used by
> > > the G4's don't support analog output (the analog cable
> > > connected to the sound card). Thus no sound with the
> > > various CD player apps.
> > >
> > > Jim
> > >
>
AFAIK this is not possible at this time. Perhaps in later kernels?
Maurice
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