Re: Sound drivers detected on Mac Mini and G5, but not Powermac G4

2009-08-08 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Ben Finney [090808 13:38 +1000] Risto Suominen risto.suomi...@gmail.com writes: I'm quite sure that snd-aoa does not support Tumbler or older hardware, probably never will. Fortunately, the ALSA project has committed a chenge to support some older machines, including the PowerMac G4

Re: Sound drivers detected on Mac Mini and G5, but not Powermac G4

2009-08-08 Thread Ben Finney
Elimar Riesebieter riese...@lxtec.de writes: What tells # cat /proc/asound/version $ cat /proc/asound/version Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.16. Patching the debian alsa-driver sources is not needed as we use native alsa-lib, though. I assume that your driver version

Re: Sound drivers detected on Mac Mini and G5, but not Powermac G4

2009-08-08 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 11:47:16AM +1000, Ben Finney a écrit : Ah okay, I was expecting an ALSA patch from 2009-01 to already be in kernel 2.6.26. Do you know that patch is in kernel 2.6.30? Hi Ben, on my amd64 system it is: aqwa『~』$ uname -a Linux aqwa 2.6.30-1-amd64 #1 SMP Sat Jul 18

Auto detection of audio hardware and driver loading on powerpc (was: Sound drivers detected on Mac Mini and G5, but not Powermac G4)

2009-08-08 Thread Ben Finney
Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au writes: How can I diagnose, then, why the ‘snd-aoa’ modules are loaded on this machine (with no explicit request or configuration that I know of), and why the ‘snd-powermac’ module is not loaded? I'm still baffled by this. If ‘snd-powermac’ would work on

Re: Auto detection of audio hardware and driver loading on powerpc (was: Sound drivers detected on Mac Mini and G5, but not Powermac G4)

2009-08-08 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 01:16:43PM +1000, Ben Finney a écrit : Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au writes: If ‘snd-powermac’ would work on this machine, why is that not the module that gets loaded? I think that is being adressed: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=525946 --

Re: Auto detection of audio hardware and driver loading on powerpc

2009-08-08 Thread Ben Finney
Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org writes: Le Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 01:16:43PM +1000, Ben Finney a écrit : If ‘snd-powermac’ would work on this machine, why is that not the module that gets loaded? I think that is being adressed: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=525946