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Re: Sound on iMac G5 (8,1)



On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 11:01 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I tried a self-compiled 2.6.15-1 debian kernel which I patched to enable
> sound support:
> 
> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/linuxppc64/patch?id=3924
> 
> When I try to load the snd_powermac module (which crashes the machine on
> non-patched kernels), I encounter the following error:
> 
> sorbet:~#  modprobe snd_powermac
> FATAL: Error inserting snd_powermac
> (/lib/modules/2.6.15sound/kernel/sound/ppc/snd-powermac.ko): Unknown
> symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)
> 
> dmesg says:
> snd_powermac: Unknown symbol i2c_smbus_write_i2c_block_data
> 
> Any hint is welcome...

There is no sound support for this machine yet. The patch above is
irrelevant to this machine. I'm working on it though but it will take
some time, please be patient :)

(The patch above requires another patch to the i2c code that is only
just going upstream anyway).

Ben.



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