[gobolinux-users] bemoaning the lack of sound

[Carlo Calica]

On 11/23/07, Isaac Dupree <isaacdupree at charter.net> wrote:
>
> What the heck??? I don't know what I did, but I just noticed that there
> is now a red glow coming out of the headphone jack in the computer, and
> the headphones have completely the expected behavior when plugging and
> unplugging!  Although I can't seem to find a way to mute the headphones.
>   Maybe having IEC958 unmuted for several minutes changed things (even
> though there is no effect if I mute it now for a few seconds)
>
> Any idea what's going on?
>

The red glow is for the digital TOSlink output.  You may want to look
at the patches here [1].  I've used their patches for 2.6.20 on my
Macbook C2D and had sound without problems.

[1] http://mactel-linux.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/mactel-linux/trunk/kernel/mactel-patches-2.6.23/


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Carlo J. Calica