Re: [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 [090615 08:08 +0900]
> 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.
At the moment I can't verify which package blacklists snd-powermac?
Elimar
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