ALSA_CARDS setting for G5

lassic · n00b Joined: 10 Aug 2005 Posts: 12

Looking at the Gentoo PPC faq, it states for an install on a G5 to use the alsa drivers rather than using the kernel drivers for Alsa. What should be specified for the ALSA_CARDS in /etc/make.conf on a G5? I wasn't able to find a G5 in the Alsa sound card matrix.

Thanks!

silian87 · Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2005 1:34 pm Post subject:

I am not sure of this... but maiby it use

lassic · n00b Joined: 10 Aug 2005 Posts: 12

I have tried both:

ALSA_CARDS="powermac"

and

ALSA_CARDS="snd-powermac"

both return an error as below when emerging alsa-driver

checking for which soundcards to compile driver for... configure: error: Unsupported soundcard powermac

This is on a clean 2005.1 install on a dual proc G5, 64bit install

Any help would be great, getting sound to work is my last major challenge on this box

corsair · Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 5:39 pm Post subject:

compile the driver from the kernel as a module. this definetly works.

can you please give me the direct url to the page you found this? I'm going to change that then. as it seems to be described wrong.

lassic · n00b Joined: 10 Aug 2005 Posts: 12

I compiled in the kernel and it seems to be working, no way to test yet other than I can now run alsamixer. It's weird because compiling in the kernel has *never* worked. Though i've always done a 32bit install on this G5, maybe thats the reason compiling in the kernel never worked before?

Anyway what put me on the path of the modules was

"Note: If you are using a G5 or a mac-mini, you should follow the Gentoo ALSA configuration guide to install the latest version of the ALSA drivers instead of the versions supplied by the kernel."

this is from http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-ppc-faq.xml

Thanks

Now to see if the software I want to use is still masked on ppc64