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 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 Silver that I hav

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

2009-08-08 Thread Ben Finney
Elimar Riesebieter 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 doesn't match

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 12

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 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 this machine, why is tha

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 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 -- Charles -- To UNS

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

2009-08-08 Thread Ben Finney
Charles Plessy 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 Thank you, I'l

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

2009-08-08 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
* Ben Finney [090809 11:47 +1000] > Elimar Riesebieter writes: > > > What tells > > # cat /proc/asound/version > > $ cat /proc/asound/version > Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.16. This is without the snd-aoa_snd_powermac patch :( > > > Patching the debian alsa-driver sou