Re: kernel 2.6.16 on powerbook G4: Oops when loading sound module

[Michael Schmitz <schmitz@zirkon.biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de>]

> > I think it crashes because the sound driver is stupid and tries to tap
> > an i2c bus before it was bound to one at all, thus dereferences NULL...
> > Should work if you make sure the i2c driver is loaded first. The problem
> > was introduced in part because of the driver name change (i2c-keywest ->
> > i2c-powermac) since the sound driver explicitely tries to load
> > i2c-keywest and wasn't properly updated. Thus you need to load
> > i2c-powermac yourself or have it built-in (I recommend the later).
>
> The kernel uploaded yesterday to debian archive have indeed the problem.
> What should I do to load first the i2c driver ?

modprobe i2c-powermac (as root).

	Michael