Fedora Core 3 works on the Mac Mini

Brian S McGee bmcgee21 at student.scad.edu
Mon Feb 7 22:32:48 UTC 2005


Mike Wrote:
> 2. Wade: installed system-config-soundcard-1.2.10-2wm (thanks for your
> work), the soundcard is detected (the tools says it'll use 
> snd_powermac)but I can't hear anything when the test sound is 
> played (I hear there's
> something weird with volume control on the card - maybe that's 
> it?). On
> the console, I get
> 'amixer: Mixer attach default error: No such device'
> I know this sounds silly, but running strace doesn't seem to show the
> device its looking for. Maybe I'm blind.
> 
> Mike

I had this same problem on my powerbook G4.  I had to unmute the master
volume in alsamixer.  I couldn't get the alsammixer to work in the GUI,
only in command line.  After unmuting, try running
system-config-soundcard.  Should work after that.

Brian McGee




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