If "the sound often clicks" probably you need the Ingo Molnar real-time patch in order to obtain a "Complete Preemption" (low latency kernel) that's good for audio stuff.
regards 2008/9/8 Jeff Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Thanks Elijah, but unfortunately that didn't solve the problem. In addition > I've found that sound quality sometimes lapses into what sounds like a 22 or > 11 khz samplerate. Very strange. > > I'm compiling a fresh kernel, just to see if that happens to fix it, but > otherwise I'm not sure what to do. Where would I report this bug, > www.kernel.org? > > -Jeff > > elijah r. wrote: > >> On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 8:03 PM, Jeffrey Loren Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> >> >>> Dear Debian-ers, >>> I've tried a few distributions of gnu Linux on my powerbook, and Debian >>> is >>> the best that I found. I'm now synced with the latest Lenny updates and >>> it's >>> working great. >>> The only thing I had to configure manually was to put the line >>> "snd-powermac" in /etc/modules to get sound to automatically work after >>> booting. The problem is that sound often clicks. If I use the trackpad it >>> clicks horribly in addition to the regular clicking. A usb mouse doesn't >>> seem to aggravate the clicking. I've tried totem movie player and VLC. >>> I've searched on google and this list's archives for a solution but >>> haven't >>> found a solution. I would definitely appreciate any help! >>> >>> >>