[ydl-gen] Sound on G4 PowerMac (digital audio)

2010-06-29 Thread Thomas Carlson
Can anyone tell me why the sound doesn't work on my G4 PowerMac (digital audio) running YDL 6.2? The audio configuration utility says that automatic detection of its sound card does not work. Does this particular machine have an oddball card that doesn't work with snd-powermac? Tom __ Thomas

Re: [ydl-gen] Sound on G4 PowerMac (digital audio)

2010-06-29 Thread Derick Centeno
On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 14:07:19 -0600 Thomas Carlson wrote: > Can anyone tell me why the sound doesn't work on my G4 PowerMac > (digital audio) running YDL 6.2? The audio configuration utility > says that automatic detection of its sound card does not work. Does > this particular machine have an o

Re: [ydl-gen] Sound on G4 PowerMac (digital audio)

2010-06-30 Thread Thomas Carlson
Derick: I did what you suggested: changed my window manager to xfce (very nice, I'm keeping it) and went to Settings/Settings Manager/Sound. All the controls are at 0 which tells me that the default setting is not recognizing the sound card. In the Volume Control utility I can't get it to go

Re: [ydl-gen] Sound on G4 PowerMac (digital audio)

2010-06-30 Thread Derick Centeno
On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 07:35:19 -0600 Thomas Carlson wrote: > Derick: > > I did what you suggested: changed my window manager to xfce (very > nice, I'm keeping it) and went to Settings/Settings Manager/Sound. > All the controls are at 0 which tells me that the default setting is > not recognizing

Re: [ydl-gen] Sound on G4 PowerMac (digital audio)

2010-06-30 Thread Stephen Harker
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 11:52:41AM -0400, Derick Centeno wrote: > On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 07:35:19 -0600 > Thomas Carlson wrote: > > > Derick: > > > > I did what you suggested: changed my window manager to xfce (very > > nice, I'm keeping it) and went to Settings/Settings Manager/Sound. > > All the

Re: [ydl-gen] Sound on G4 PowerMac (digital audio)

2010-06-30 Thread Stephen Harker
Hi, I finally found some sites that indicate that snd-powermac is the correct module for the powermac G4 digital audio. There does seem to be several sites mentioning patches for the alsa drivers for these models so there may be problems. The show up near the top of the list I got using the sear

Re: [ydl-gen] Sound on G4 PowerMac (digital audio)

2010-07-01 Thread Derick Centeno
On Thu, 1 Jul 2010 09:30:39 +1000 Stephen Harker wrote: > On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 11:52:41AM -0400, Derick Centeno wrote: > > On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 07:35:19 -0600 > > Thomas Carlson wrote: > > > > > Derick: > > > > > > I did what you suggested: changed my window manager to xfce (very > > > nice

Re: [ydl-gen] Sound on G4 PowerMac (digital audio)

2010-07-05 Thread Stephen Harker
Hi Derick, > Within XFCE there is an app accessible by going to the XFCE menu or by > right-clicking on a three-button mouse: Other --> Soundcard Detection. > [...] It sounds pretty much like the standard system-config-soundcard. As I indicated sound works perfectly in my iBook G4. This is avai