The emerge of alsa-driver-0.9.0_rc1-r7.ebuild (and all other alsa-driver ebuilds) fails because linux/modversions.h is missing in ppc-sources 2.4.19-r6 (it is present in 2.4.19-r5 but not 2.4.19-r6). Since this file only contains a #include <linux/modsetver.h>, symlinking /usr/include/linux/modsetver.h to /usr/include/linux/modversions.h allows the emerge to work.
Is this still a problem for rc5 of the alsa packages?
I think turning off the version info in the kernel build has fixed it. I'm trying rc5 now.
Emerge is successful, but trying to load the module results in this: bash-2.05b$ sudo /sbin/lsmod Module Size Used by Not tainted soundcore 4504 0 serial 52760 0 (autoclean) (unused) bash-2.05b$ sudo /sbin/insmod snd-mixer-oss Using /lib/modules/2.4.19-r6/kernel/sound/acore/oss/snd-mixer-oss.o /lib/modules/2.4.19-r6/kernel/sound/acore/oss/snd-mixer-oss.o: unresolved symbol snd_cards /lib/modules/2.4.19-r6/kernel/sound/acore/oss/snd-mixer-oss.o: unresolved symbol snd_ctl_notify /lib/modules/2.4.19-r6/kernel/sound/acore/oss/snd-mixer-oss.o: unresolved symbol snd_info_get_line /lib/modules/2.4.19-r6/kernel/sound/acore/oss/snd-mixer-oss.o: unresolved symbol snd_register_oss_device /lib/modules/2.4.19-r6/kernel/sound/acore/oss/snd-mixer-oss.o: unresolved symbol snd_verbose_printk /lib/modules/2.4.19-r6/kernel/sound/acore/oss/snd-mixer-oss.o: unresolved symbol snd_kcalloc /lib/modules/2.4.19-r6/kernel/sound/acore/oss/snd-mixer-oss.o: unresolved symbol snd_info_free_entry /lib/modules/2.4.19-r6/kernel/sound/acore/oss/snd-mixer-oss.o: unresolved symbol snd_ctl_find_id /lib/modules/2.4.19-r6/kernel/sound/acore/oss/snd-mixer-oss.o: unresolved symbol snd_info_create_card_entry /lib/modules/2.4.19-r6/kernel/sound/acore/oss/snd-mixer-oss.o: unresolved symbol snd_oss_info_register /lib/modules/2.4.19-r6/kernel/sound/acore/oss/snd-mixer-oss.o: unresolved symbol snd_mixer_oss_notify_callback /lib/modules/2.4.19-r6/kernel/sound/acore/oss/snd-mixer-oss.o: unresolved symbol snd_iprintf /lib/modules/2.4.19-r6/kernel/sound/acore/oss/snd-mixer-oss.o: unresolved symbol snd_info_register /lib/modules/2.4.19-r6/kernel/sound/acore/oss/snd-mixer-oss.o: unresolved symbol snd_kmalloc_strdup /lib/modules/2.4.19-r6/kernel/sound/acore/oss/snd-mixer-oss.o: unresolved symbol snd_unregister_oss_device /lib/modules/2.4.19-r6/kernel/sound/acore/oss/snd-mixer-oss.o: unresolved symbol snd_info_get_str /lib/modules/2.4.19-r6/kernel/sound/acore/oss/snd-mixer-oss.o: unresolved symbol snd_info_unregister bash-2.05b$
[In the right place now ...] I finally managed to get everything loaded; my error. bash-2.05b$ sudo /sbin/lsmod Module Size Used by Not tainted snd-pcm-oss 46324 0 (unused) snd-mixer-oss 13392 0 [snd-pcm-oss] snd-hwdep 4672 0 (unused) snd-pcm 67184 0 [snd-pcm-oss] snd-timer 12816 0 [snd-pcm] snd 29964 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-hwdep snd-pcm snd-timer] soundcore 4504 0 [snd] serial 52760 0 (autoclean) (unused) bash-2.05b$ However, I still have no /dev/mixer, /dev/dsp/, or /dev/audio. devfsd.conf looks OK: # ALSA/OSS stuff # Comment/change these if you want to change the permissions on # the audio devices LOOKUP snd MODLOAD ACTION snd LOOKUP dsp MODLOAD LOOKUP mixer MODLOAD LOOKUP midi MODLOAD REGISTER sound/.* PERMISSIONS root.audio 666 REGISTER snd/.* PERMISSIONS root.audio 666 What do I have to do with /etc/modules.d/alsa if I have only Mac internal sound? I can't find any driver in /lib/modules except the snd-powermac one which I think is OSS, not ALSA.
Joe: snd-powermac should be also.. the oss are dmasound/soundcore and dmasound_pmac I believe
Joe, can this bug be closed? If you are still having prolbems, try Mark's suggestion (#5) and reopen the bug.
