sound on the Mac PPC stuff

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Maybe I can save a few people with old PPC Macs a little trouble by
making this a little easier to find:

First, I found this post on fedoraunity (fedorasolved.org) on general
sound troubleshooting:

http://fedorasolved.org/Members/fenris02/pulseaudio-fixes-and-workarounds

At the very first step,

cat /proc/asound/cards

I find that there are no sound cards (ergo, drivers for any sound cards) loaded.

Taking that as the hint, I searched (google) for "no sound card ibook
apple fedora" and found

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=190928

over at fedora forums. The recommendation is to add the line

modprobe snd-powermac

to

/etc/rc.local

which, at this point, brings sound card recognition for the built-in
(let's see, PowerMac Snapper, made for apple by somebody) sound
hardware to my iBook G4. Haven't figured out how to get it to record
in audacity from the console mic yet, but it does make system beeps
and such. rhythmbox can play internet radio.

Crashes nicely, too. Hmm. Now it is not playing internet radio, after
all. That is, it doesn't seem to find any stations to play, which
means that the crash botched the settings somewhere. I don't see any
.rhythmbox anywhere in my home directory, guess I'll have to figure
out where that stuff goes later.

Anyway, that appears to be the first step for sound on the old PPC Macs.

(I'm sure I'd seen it before, just never when I had time to think
about it, much less boot Fedora on the box and edit the file.)

Pardon the noise, I'll let you get back to your regularly scheduled programs.

joel rees
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