Vanilla 2.6.1 was working fine, but 2.6.2 is definitely broken: 1) dmasound_pmac is gone, yet this is the only sound driver that ever worked on this hardware. Console beep is gone since 2.6, although that's still tolerable.
2) the ALSA substitute (snd_powermac) never worked on this hardware (either as an alsa-source on 2.4 or as built-in within kernel 2.6) and it still doesn't (my experiences of alsa-source with 2.4 were already reported here a few times). There never was any error messages on 2.4, but 2.6.2 gives me this: Starting ALSA (version 0.9.7):snd_powermac: Unknown symbol i2c_smbus_write_block_data snd_powermac: Unknown symbol i2c_add_driver snd_powermac: Unknown symbol i2c_smbus_write_byte_data snd_powermac: Unknown symbol i2c_del_driver snd_powermac: Unknown symbol i2c_detach_client snd_powermac: Unknown symbol i2c_attach_client powermac-failed failed This therefore leaves me without sound, which is unacceptable. Back to 2.6.1... -- Martin-Éric Racine, ICT Consultant http://www.pp.fishpool.fi/~q-funk/
