Re: Squeeze

[Jeroen Diederen <jjhdiederen@zonnet.nl>]

I would file an official bug report and mention the patches. It's the
only way to have it in there. It won't go in there automatically.

On Thu, 2010-10-28 at 12:22 -0600, Thomas Carlson wrote:
> No, not formally.  They have been issues of long standing, addressed
> in the following links:
> 
> http://ristosu.wippiespace.com/pub/alsa-tumbler-1.0.22.1-p15.diff
> http://ristosu.wippiespace.com/pub/alsa-tumbler-1.0.22.1-p16.diff
> http://ristosu.wippiespace.com/pub/alsa-tumbler-1.0.22.1-p16d.diff
> http://ristosu.wippiespace.com/pub/alsa-driver-tumbler-patch.html
> http://routerjockey.com/2009/08/28/setting-up-apple-filing-protocol-and-bonjour-under-debian/
> 
> They work.  My point is, could these patches be included in the
> upcoming stable release so that newbies to linux wouldn't have to go
> through all that?
> 
> Tom
> 
> On Oct 28, 2010, at 10:33 AM, Jeroen Diederen wrote:
> 
> > Did you file a bug report for these two issues? 
> > 
> > On Thu, 2010-10-28 at 09:52 -0600, Thomas Carlson wrote:
> > > I have been periodically installing the latest "test" version of
> > > Squeeze on my PowerMac G4 (digital audio) hoping that when the
> > > finalized version is released at the end of this year I can
> > > recommend it as a good alternative to Mac OS X Tiger on older
> > > PowerPC machines.  I like how it has matured over the months and
> > > it's almost there.
> > > 
> > > Too bad, though, that Alsamixer is still broke "out of the box"
> > > requiring a patch to run right, and that one has to rebuild
> > > Netatalk in order to share files with OS X Snow Leopard.  Most Mac
> > > users just aren't going to do that and will continue to use Tiger
> > > which "just works" until something better comes along.
> > > 
> > > Thanks to those who continue to work on these problems.
> > > 
> > > Tom
> > > __
> > > Thomas Carlson
> > > 2319 La Senda
> > > Santa Fe, NM 87505
> > > 505-603-5526
> > > http://www.ifixoldmacs.com
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> On Oct 28, 2010, at 10:33 AM, Jeroen Diederen wrote:
> 
> > Did you file a bug report for these two issues? 
> > 
> > On Thu, 2010-10-28 at 09:52 -0600, Thomas Carlson wrote:
> > > I have been periodically installing the latest "test" version of
> > > Squeeze on my PowerMac G4 (digital audio) hoping that when the
> > > finalized version is released at the end of this year I can
> > > recommend it as a good alternative to Mac OS X Tiger on older
> > > PowerPC machines.  I like how it has matured over the months and
> > > it's almost there.
> > > 
> > > Too bad, though, that Alsamixer is still broke "out of the box"
> > > requiring a patch to run right, and that one has to rebuild
> > > Netatalk in order to share files with OS X Snow Leopard.  Most Mac
> > > users just aren't going to do that and will continue to use Tiger
> > > which "just works" until something better comes along.
> > > 
> > > Thanks to those who continue to work on these problems.
> > > 
> > > Tom
> > > __
> > > Thomas Carlson
> > > 2319 La Senda
> > > Santa Fe, NM 87505
> > > 505-603-5526
> > > http://www.ifixoldmacs.com
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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