Alubook 5,8: No sound with 2.6.17-rc3-g5528e568-dirty
Wolfgang Pfeiffer
roto at gmx.net
Sat May 13 00:19:18 EST 2006
Hi All
First a fat Thanks to Johannes, Benh and to all of those heroes making
it possible to run a relatively freh PPC (Apple) Powerbook model with Linux ... :)
I'm cross-posting. So a short note for those who can't know what all this is about:
I didn't have sound with a fresh git kernel, on the machine mentioned above:
$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
cpu : 7447A, altivec supported
clock : 833.333000MHz
revision : 0.5 (pvr 8003 0105)
bogomips : 16.57
timebase : 8320000
platform : PowerMac
machine : PowerBook5,8
motherboard : PowerBook5,8 MacRISC3 Power Macintosh
detected as : 287 (PowerBook G4 15")
pmac flags : 00000019
L2 cache : 512K unified
pmac-generation : NewWorld
[Oops, something's messed up there: this actually is a 1.67 Ghz
processor. I'll have a look at this later .. :) ]
That's why I sent a message to linuxppc-dev at ozlabs.org. The thread is
starting here:
http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2006-May/022736.html
On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 11:30:28PM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote:
> On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 06:04:13PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
>
> > Also, try snd-aoa.
>
> Impossible here, it does not compile here. Neither with gcc 4.0 or 4.1
Wrong. To put it mildly .. :) Result probably of me being too tired,
too fast, and too anal when reading instructions ...
# lsmod | grep -i aoa
snd_aoa_codec_onyx 12032 2
snd_aoa_fabric_layout 7492 2
snd_aoa 8076 2 snd_aoa_codec_onyx,snd_aoa_fabric_layout
soundbus 6628 2 snd_aoa_fabric_layout,i2sbus
snd 60148 12 snd_aoa_codec_onyx,snd_aoa_fabric_layout,
snd_aoa,snd_powermac,i2sbus,snd_pcm_oss,
snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
I successfully compiled the software now, and only with gcc-4.1. Example:
# modinfo snd_aoa
filename: /lib/modules/2.6.17-rc3-gf358166a-dirty/kernel/sound/aoa/snd-aoa.ko
description: Apple Onboard Audio Sound Driver
author: Johannes Berg <johannes at sipsolutions.net>
license: GPL
vermagic: 2.6.17-rc3-gf358166a-dirty mod_unload gcc-4.1
depends: snd
srcversion: D0DFD2EF0CFEB8E7C08AAEB
The git kernel I compiled the snd-aoa modules for (must be from about
yesterday, IINM):
cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.6.17-rc3-gf358166a-dirty (root at debby1-6) (gcc version
4.1.1 20060428 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.0-2)) #1 Fri May 12 01:13:36
CEST 2006
config for this latest kernel (Please note the
"CONFIG_PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY=y" in there ... :) ... :
<http://wolfgangpfeiffer.com/config-2.6.17-rc3-gf358166a-dirty.txt>
I filled /etc/modules with snd_aoa modules and i have sound already
from boot time on ... with a minor glitch (i.e. not being able to
store a certain volume level via alsactrl to the next reboot, as it
seems), but sound ...
>
> I took your instructions from
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2006/03/msg00470.html
>
I'm listening to some Internet radio station via alsaplayer while
writing this mail ... :) ...
Results, as of now:
I can change the sound volume via the software. Tested in xine and
alsaplayer-gtk so far ...
I have problems doing the same with pbbuttonsd. That is I can start,
e.g., gtkppbuttons, but when pressing <FN>-<F5> or <FN>-<F4> it seems
being impossible to change the sound volume this way. But I can toggle
it completely ON/OFF with <FN>-<F3.> ... not being sure tho' whether
this is due to some of my braindead mistakes or really a pbbuttonsd
issue ...
Thanks again a lot to everyone for your work, your time, and the
resulting fine software ... :)
Nice weekend
Wolfgang
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