Hi all, > > > > Perhaps we should kill the snd-* madness in Debian (at least)? Does > > > > snd-aoa* actually work for a majority of users? > > > > We should distribute what the Linux Kernel provides! > > Right. I am CC'ing some people that can potentially have answers to this > question. If you have any comments, it would be nice to get this sorted > out for the distributions. :-) > > From a very quick look at the source code of snd-aoa, it seems that the > chips supported are onyx, tas and toonie. > > How should the distribution side of this be handled (say, with the > automatic loading of the proper module) with machines that use, say, > tumbler?
The old way was to just load snd-powermac on Macs, and then have it do nothing. That's wasteful in a sense, but it doesn't hurt. 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. > > > > It is my understanding that snd-powermac works for more users (almost > > > > all?) of stock apple-based powerpcs and Linux. > > > > > > Last I tried snd-aoa didn't work. (iBook G4 1,2 GHz) I have to use > > > snd-powermac to get the sound working. I'm curious as well why it is > > > so. > > > > snd-aoa works great here on a PowerBook5,8 ;-) > > OK, fine that it works for you. :-) It would be nice if it worked for > many others, though. :-) What about snd-powermac, OTOH? snd-powermac will not work on machines where snd-aoa works, they're mutually exclusive but some older machines need snd-powermac, which, unfortunately, cannot load automatically. I suppose one way would be to load snd-powermac only when snd-aoa didn't auto-load? johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1280390290.3823.4.ca...@jlt3.sipsolutions.net
