According to the following BTS entry, the ALSA maintainer assigned to the snd-powermac driver doesn't even have any Mac to play with:
https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=306 This prooves that all attempts at fixing the driver have been shooting in the dark. No f***** wonder the snd-powermac driver is such a mess! Wouldn't it be a good idea to place a bounty to encourage Ubuntu PPC developers to get around fixing snd-powermac for all Mac PPC chips? -- Martin-Éric Racine http://www.iki.fi/q-funk/