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Re: ibook troubles after dist-upgrade



OoO Pendant le temps de midi du mercredi 04 juin 2003, vers 12:31,
Thomas Winischhofer <thomas@winischhofer.net> disait:

> ALSA worked fine with 0.9.0beta10. Now I updated to 0.9.3 (or whatever
> is current in sid), and it does not work at all. In fact, it modprobes
> some i2c modules and presumably snd-powermac, but the machine freezes
> solid when restoring the volumes. I have to press the power button for
> over 10 seconds to make it reboot. All config files were produced by
> debconf, no manual changes.

I preload dmasound-pmac and unload it before ALSA to allow it to
initialize the mixer correctly.

> 3) Power management

> This one might be related to ALSA, but since I put an "exit 0" in
> init.d/alsa, perhaps not... However: snooze, which worked perfectly
> previously, now also freezes the machine. The display goes dark, and
> that's it. Hard lock. No syslog entries (and a horrible fsck on
> reboot, which I also have problems with because of a totally skrewed
> keymap during the phase of the fsck)

You need to unload ALSA before going to sleep (force-stop). BTW,
modify /etc/init.d/alsa to put "|| true" after each kill. Otherwise,
the script will stop and the modules will not be unloaded.
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