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

[Charles Plessy]

Le Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 03:03:40PM -0400, Rick Thomas a écrit :
>>
>> 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.

Dear all,

the snd-powermac module was freezing G5s on fresh installs long time ago, and
was disabled for this reason. But in a test I made one year ago, it was not the
case anymore. There is probably no reason to keep it blacklisted by default,
although it may be useful to double-check its innocuity before.

Have a nice day,

-- 
Charles Plessy
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan