Sound, video on iMac 27 inch

[Nick Urbanik]

Dear Folks,

My wife and son both have an iMac 27 inch running Fedora 14.  I have
two goals:
1. Get sound working (instead of pulseaudio over the network)
2. Get free software radeon driver working, understanding how to drive
    the monitor.  Currently using the proprietary driver.

I am especially keen to get sound working.  I've tried the
suggestion on http://mac.linux.be/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=64,
but have not had success.

Please point me to any information/bug reports/ideas.
$ uname -r
2.6.35.13-91.fc14.x86_64
$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP79 Host Bridge (rev b1)
00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP79 Memory Controller (rev b1)
00:03.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP79 LPC Bridge (rev b3)
00:03.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP79 Memory Controller (rev b1)
00:03.2 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP79 SMBus (rev b1)
00:03.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP79 Memory Controller (rev b1)
00:03.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation Device 0a98 (rev b1)
00:03.5 Co-processor: nVidia Corporation MCP79 Co-processor (rev b1)
00:04.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP79 OHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev b1)
00:04.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP79 EHCI USB 2.0 Controller (rev b1)
00:06.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP79 OHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev b1)
00:06.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP79 EHCI USB 2.0 Controller (rev b1)
00:08.0 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP79 High Definition Audio (rev b1)
00:09.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP79 PCI Bridge (rev b1)
00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: nVidia Corporation MCP79 Ethernet (rev b1)
00:0b.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP79 SATA Controller (rev b1)
00:0c.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP79 PCI Express Bridge (rev b1)
00:15.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP79 PCI Express Bridge (rev b1)
00:16.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP79 PCI Express Bridge (rev b1)
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Device 9488
02:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc RV710/730
03:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR928X Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)
04:00.0 PCI bridge: Texas Instruments XIO2213A/B/XIO2221 PCI Express to PCI Bridge (rev 01)
05:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments XIO2213A/B/XIO2221 IEEE-1394b OHCI Controller (rev 01)
$ lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
fuse                   61934  3 
ebtable_nat             1999  0 
ebtables               21790  1 ebtable_nat
ipt_MASQUERADE          2353  3 
iptable_nat             5018  1 
nf_nat                 20289  2 ipt_MASQUERADE,iptable_nat
rfcomm                 67058  4 
sco                    17196  2 
bnep                   15390  2 
l2cap                  51240  16 rfcomm,bnep
nfsd                  268660  13 
lockd                  67367  1 nfsd
nfs_acl                 2439  1 nfsd
auth_rpcgss            39300  1 nfsd
exportfs                3608  1 nfsd
sunrpc                201276  17 nfsd,lockd,nfs_acl,auth_rpcgss
cpufreq_ondemand        9278  2 
acpi_cpufreq            7345  1 
freq_table              3955  2 cpufreq_ondemand,acpi_cpufreq
mperf                   1481  1 acpi_cpufreq
bridge                 70104  0 
stp                     2034  1 bridge
llc                     4802  2 bridge,stp
xt_physdev              1810  1 
ip6t_REJECT             4279  2 
nf_conntrack_ipv6      18078  2 
ip6table_filter         1687  1 
ip6_tables             17497  1 ip6table_filter
ipv6                  286354  60 ip6t_REJECT,nf_conntrack_ipv6
kvm_intel              41918  0 
kvm                   257420  1 kvm_intel
uinput                  7368  0 
snd_hda_codec_atihdmi     2727  1 
arc4                    1449  2 
snd_hda_codec_cirrus    10339  1 
ecb                     2119  2 
ath9k                  86167  0 
ath9k_common            5294  1 ath9k
ath9k_hw              283034  2 ath9k,ath9k_common
snd_hda_intel          24495  3 
snd_hda_codec          86743  3 snd_hda_codec_atihdmi,snd_hda_codec_cirrus,snd_hda_intel
ath                     9505  2 ath9k,ath9k_hw
snd_hwdep               6392  1 snd_hda_codec
mac80211              229063  2 ath9k,ath9k_common
snd_seq                53791  0 
snd_seq_device          6191  1 snd_seq
snd_pcm                80190  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
snd_timer              19892  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd                    64032  14 snd_hda_codec_cirrus,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm,snd_timer
uvcvideo               56105  0 
cfg80211              134981  4 ath9k,ath9k_common,ath,mac80211
applesmc               33807  0 
btusb                  15514  3 
fglrx                2728441  80 
videodev               69118  1 uvcvideo
v4l2_compat_ioctl32     7665  1 videodev
shpchp                 30251  0 
soundcore               6576  1 snd
bluetooth              89276  11 rfcomm,sco,bnep,l2cap,btusb
rfkill                 17622  4 cfg80211,bluetooth
forcedeth              48795  0 
snd_page_alloc          7559  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
input_polldev           3957  1 applesmc
appleir                 5507  0 
i2c_nforce2             6718  0 
i2c_core               27212  2 videodev,i2c_nforce2
joydev                  9785  0 
microcode              18662  0 
usb_storage            46243  0 
firewire_ohci          21314  0 
firewire_core          45817  1 firewire_ohci
crc_itu_t               1563  1 firewire_core
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Nick Urbanik             http://nicku.org           nicku at nicku.org
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