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

[Rick Thomas]

On Jun 14, 2009, at 2:26 PM, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:

> * Rick Thomas [090614 14:17 -0400]
>> 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.
>
> This is an unknown driver? Please send the output of:
> $ lsmod | grep snd
> $ cat /proc/cpuinfo
>
> Elimar

rbthomas at greybox:~$ lsmod | grep snd
snd_powermac           47776  0
snd_aoa_i2sbus         22760  0
snd_pcm                80004  2 snd_powermac,snd_aoa_i2sbus
snd_page_alloc         12840  1 snd_pcm
snd_seq                58200  0
snd_timer              25556  2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device         10876  1 snd_seq
snd                    64960  6  
snd_powermac,snd_aoa_i2sbus,snd_pcm,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
soundcore              10176  1 snd
snd_aoa_soundbus        9012  1 snd_aoa_i2sbus
rbthomas at greybox:~$


rbthomas at greybox:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
cpu             : 7450, altivec supported
clock           : 733.333331MHz
revision        : 2.1 (pvr 8000 0201)
bogomips        : 66.30
timebase        : 33217233
platform        : PowerMac
model           : PowerMac3,5
machine         : PowerMac3,5
motherboard     : PowerMac3,5 MacRISC2 MacRISC Power Macintosh
detected as     : 69 (PowerMac G4 Silver)
pmac flags      : 00000010
L2 cache        : 256K unified
pmac-generation : NewWorld
Memory          : 1024 MB
rbthomas at greybox:~$

Hope this helps!

Rick