[Alsa-user] snd-powermac ibook2 alsa 0.9 misfortunes

[Ronan <Ro...@fo...>]

Hi, 

I'm having some interesting difficulties with ALSA on my Apple ibook2
(500MHz G3 running Debian).

I'm using the 0.9 version of ALSA and have tried today's CVS snapshot as
well as the release candidate.  I even had a quick go at 0.5 but discovered
that it didn't come with the required snd-powermac module.

It all *seems* to be working, I do the modprobe and it all loads nicely.  I
de-mute everything and turn up the volume using alsamixer.  I run xmms, and
as far as it's concerned everything's fine playing an mp3 (via oss
emulation)... but, no sound!

The driver seems to handle me plugging in headphones and speakers just fine
(muting the speakers on the laptop on insertion and de-muting them on
removal).  No matter how loud I boost the volume, nothing, no sound...

Thinking that it might be an oss -> alsa problem I decided to try some
native alsa apps, mplayer and alsaplayer:

Compiliing mplayer for alsa9 and it gives the following when I try to play a
movie:

alsa-init: requested format: 44100 Hz, 2 channels, Signed 16-bit
(Big-Endian)
alsa-init: 1 soundcard found, using: hw:0,0

Fair enough, but then the movie doesn't play and it just hangs there.  The
movie plays fine with sound off...

Alsaplayer is similar, only it just hangs when it loads and does nothing
before it even brings up a window.

Can anyone help?  Thanks for listening...

Info:

I've got my /etc/modules.conf set up like this:

# ALSA portion
alias char-major-116 snd
# OSS/Free portion
alias char-major-14 soundcore

# ALSA portion
alias snd-card-0 snd-powermac

# OSS/Free portion
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0


# OSS/Free portion - card #1
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss

Here's the results of lsmod:

Module                  Size  Used by
snd-pcm-oss            46192   1  (autoclean)
snd-mixer-oss          11024   0  (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss]
ipt_MASQUERADE          1840   1  (autoclean)
iptable_nat            17952   1  (autoclean) [ipt_MASQUERADE]
ip_conntrack           17360   1  (autoclean) [ipt_MASQUERADE iptable_nat]
tun                     5216   3  (autoclean)
sheep_net               5504   0  (unused)
mol                    43664   1
i2c-keywest             7712   0  (autoclean) (unused)
snd-powermac           33792   1
snd-pcm                63760   0  [snd-pcm-oss snd-powermac]
snd-timer              13056   0  [snd-pcm]
ide-scsi                9712   0
snd                    34960   2  [snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-powermac
snd-pc
m snd-timer]
soundcore               4896   3  [snd]
i2c-core               14752   0  [i2c-keywest snd-powermac]
iptable_filter          2128   1  (autoclean)
ip_tables              13968   5  [ipt_MASQUERADE iptable_nat
iptable_filter]
serial                 51744   0  (autoclean)
gmac                   16752   0