I should try again to research this myself ... But since a few of you seem to know something about linux on macs and I haven't found much in the past regarding my particular hardware when I have looked ... I have an old PowerMac 7500 upgraded to a maxpowr G3 300MHz cpu (originally with a 601 100MHz chip). This is a PCI powermac. Do you know if I can get linux to run on this machine? The thing's been powered off for almost 2 years ... but, one of my longstanding todo items is getting it going as a linux box to have as a backup for web/mail/irc/etc and possibly basic recording duty in case I totally hose my main audiobox someday. Any pointers or experiences with this or similar hardware? Thanks, Eric Rz. On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 03:04:56PM +0000, Martin Habets wrote: > >From: dmotd <inaudible@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > i'm using the g3 internal soundcard (chip=burgandy) with both the > > oss-lite and alsa drivers.. neither driver has improved the > > situation.. for a bit of clarity, no sound is passed through the > > chip, and capture/recording doesn't work for any of the inputs, in > > fact in alsa there are no capture devices available at all and an > > inspection of '/proc/asound/card0/pcm0c/sub0/status' reveals the > > unfortunate message 'closed'.. > > It is normal that the status has closed unless you are actually recording. > My G4 titanium uses the snapper chip, so we use the same kernel driver. > What do > you have in /proc/asound/devices? I get: > 1: : sequencer > 0: [0- 0]: ctl > 16: [0- 0]: digital audio playback > 24: [0- 0]: digital audio capture > 33: : timer > > If you get a similar entry for capture, we should be able to get it going. > Make sure your "PCM 1" and "Monitor" entries are turned up in your mixer. > Like Derek I also have a lot of noise problems, but my best results so far > are with PCM 1 set to 75%-85% and Monitor set to 90%. I'm still puzzled how > these two relate. > > > on the flipside, os9 has no problems with sound input, which leads > > me to suspect that it has control of an internal setting that linux > > does not.. > > Hmm, haven't checked out the Mac OS side yet. Will have to give that a try > sometime. > > > can anyone shed some light, or perhaps tell me who to politely > > abuse! btw, i tried alsa-user-list but my msg is trapped in the > > moderation blackhole... > > You could try a friendly mail to: linuxppc-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > I'm using the PPC specific kernels from: > http://penguinppc.org/dev/kernel.shtml > so far with the same results you get (the 2.5 tree realy holds the 2.6 > kernel now). > But any fixes will be in here first. > > Martin
