Re: alsa on gentoo ppc 2.6.0-test11-benh1

["Zeno R.R. Davatz" <zdavatz@ywesee.com>]

1. Ok, great. CapsLock works!
2. amixer and alsamixer now also seem to work. I get a reasonable result when I do amixer or alsamixer.

But now my speaker complains: can not open /dev/sound/mixer.

Any hints?

Thanks for your feedback.

Zeno


On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 18:42:12 +1100
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:

> 
> > soundcore              11200  3 snd,dmasound_core
> > 
> > When I do amixer I get:
> > amixer: Mixer attach default error: No such device
> > 
> > I done my kernel with make menuconfig, make, make modules_install
> > 
> > I have been searching the Net for clues but did not find anything so far, to get my sound working.
> 
> It seems you are trying to load both dmasound_pmac and alsa
> snd-powermac, they are mutually exclusive.
>  
> 
> > 2. Why does my computer go to sleep when I press 'CapsLook'. Can I turn
> > that off or is this still a 2.6.0 Bug?
> 
> That's a strange thing that appeared with one snapshot of test11
> and disappeared with the next one afaik. I don't have a good explanation. It
> definitely doesn't happen on my laptops, and the logs I got from users seemed
> to indicate that the PMU chip (which controls the keyboard on those laptops)
> was actually the one sending a spurrious 0x7f event (power key). It may be
> something we do that triggers that though I haven't been able to find out
> what.
> 
> If it happens reproduceably, you may want to disable whatever userland
> daemon you have that triggers sleep when you press the power key. (I
> suppose pbbuttonsd).
> 
> Ben.
> 
> 
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