[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#526872: alsa-utils: please arange to have snd-powerpc module loaded at boot time on PowerMac G4 machines...

[Rick Thomas]

Package: alsa-utils
Version: 1.0.20-1
Severity: normal


Fresh-out-of-the-box install of Sid on a PowerMac G4 has no sound
and /etc/init.d/alsa-utils gives a flood of error messages.

The fix is to put "snd-powermac" into /etc/modules so that module
is loaded at boot time.  That gives sound and also fixes the
error messages.

For some reason, the snd-powermac module isn't recognized by whatever
software is supposed to handle such things as being necessary on the
G4 PowerMac machines.

I don't know enough about how this works to direct it to the correct
package to get it fixed.  Is this done in the installer?



-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-2-powerpc
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages alsa-utils depends on:
ii  libasound2                1.0.20-2       shared library for ALSA applicatio
ii  libc6                     2.9-13         GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libncurses5               5.7+20090523-1 shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  linux-sound-base          1.0.20+dfsg-1  base package for ALSA and OSS soun
ii  lsb-base                  3.2-22         Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  module-init-tools         3.7-pre9-1     tools for managing Linux kernel mo
ii  whiptail                  0.52.10-3      Displays user-friendly dialog boxe

Versions of packages alsa-utils recommends:
ii  alsa-base                  1.0.20+dfsg-1 ALSA driver configuration files
ii  pciutils                   1:3.1.2-5     Linux PCI Utilities

alsa-utils suggests no packages.

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