Re: Which module should one use for sound on pmacs? (was: Re: debian-testing-powerpc-xfce+lxde, 7/26/10)

[Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>]

Hi,

> > There's no auto-loading built into snd-powermac, and the way I see it
> > there's no chance there ever will be since nobody even cared years ago
> > when I worked on this stuff.
> 
> Nice. BTW, would writing an auto-loading part be hard for a kernel-illiterate?

snd-powermac is pretty strange, so yeah, I think it would be :-)

> > I suppose one way would be to load snd-powermac only when snd-aoa
> > didn't auto-load?
> 
> Right. The way that things are currently is that snd-aoa is "force fed"
> and causes some machines to not have any kind of sound.

Why would snd-aoa ever be "force fed"? It can and will load
automatically on all machines it supports. Am I missing something?

johannes