Upon upgrade to ydl4.0 sound no longer works :-(

[hexstar]

Since I've upgraded to YellowDog Linux4.0 I've found that my sound card which previously functioned fine under YellowDog 3.0.1 no longer works and I am greeted with the following error message related to my sound card each time I bootup into kde:



What's wrong? How do I fix this? I'm a newbie at ydl and linux in general so please answer accordingly. I am not sure what kind of soundcard my mac has but I do know that it's a iBook G3 800MHz and the soundcard previously worked fine without fault or this error message in ydl3.0.1. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

[Uberhip]

I have the exact same problem on my ibook2 600 witth YDL 4.0, and I as well have no idea how to fix it. Any help from you YDL gurus would be much appreciated...after all isn't 78% of a laptops functionality as a cd player

[hexstar]

well after digging around the yellowdog linux website I was able to get rid of that message box from appearing at startup by changing my sound sample to 8-bits but still no sound ...clicking the test sound/test midi buttons in the control center does nothing and changing the volume still returns no results......hope a reselution will be found for this...perhaps a kernel patch...

[Mistah_Kurtz]

Hi,

FWIW, Thought I'd share my experiences with sound on YDL 4.0. Am running a desktop G4 Sawtooth, two harddrives, one dedicated to YDL. And I installed everything.

First, Sound Card Detection always detected sound. However, I could not play CDs. XMMS segfaulted; Gnome CD player never emitted sound.
And I too kept getting the error pop-up message described in this thread.

My solution:

Go to Preferences: Sound.
Change instances of ALSA to OSS
Re-boot.

Load a music CD.
Open Rhthmbox-->Sound and Video-->Music Player
Copy the CD tracks to your hard drive
Point Rhythmbox to the Artist directory.
Push the play button.
You should now be able to play a music CD.

I've also been able to assign sound events to Opera, my browser of choice for now.

Hope this helps. Am *really* looking forward to upcoming fixes as my networking (local) is not at all working.

HTH.

Mistah_Kurtz

[Ben Ben]

Well with my powerbook g3 bronze its the same even if during install the testsound worked propperly. It seems to be a very common problem because a friend of mine with a powerbook g4 has the same problem....(there are some more bugs like keyboardmapping that don't work either)...

My problem is that if i change the sound volume with the function keys, i hear this status tone, but if i try playing a music cd or anything else i can't hear anything
Even though i sometimes get the same error mentioned above.

[aebp2003]

turn up the sound and unmute everything in KMix

[hexstar]

I hope they make a patch for this soon...

[GrapeDaddy]

On a bronze/Lombard 400mhz w/ 192 Meg mem my sound almost works,
but it is 95% loud static. Problem is same when sound detection
is set to Automatic or Threaded OSS, OSS. THe sound worked
great with YDL 3.01.
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[hexstar]

yeah the sound worked great for me, perfectly, in 3.01...now with 4.0 it doesn't work at all ...

[Ben Ben]

seems to be a kde prob?
Any solutions yet?

[StarKnight83]

Only solution i believe is to switch from ALSA to OSS sound source

[hexstar]

nope I still get that error in OSS sound source ...

[netsec]

Is there a config file to look into? Maybe post the setup from 3.1 like the "fix" for X problems?

[netsec]

I came across this after googling:

> Should load the "dmasound_pmac" Linux kernel module, at least for the
> 2.4.x kernel series.
On kernel 2.6 the correct sound module is snd-powermac.

Are you sure that the sound chip resides on this device? I think it
would be a bad hack to assign this module to this chip simply because it
is hard or impossible to detect the real sound chip. I would like to be
sure that every computer with this KeyLargo Mac I/O also has this sound
chip.

Now how do I point to snd-powermac.ko to load rather than dmasound_pmac?

[hexstar]

Why don't the staff of YDL visit their official support forum? ><