Slackintosh user here. I lost sound between kernels 2.6.21 and 2.6.22.
The fix was to compile i2c-powermac into the kernel, instead of as a
module. This ensured the i2c subsystem was initialized before the snd-
aoa module was loaded, which allowed the tas sound device to be detected
properly.
No
sam: I see that now... I thought I was on to something, since my
symptoms were similar, and especially since my machine doesn't show up
on the list of supported machines types at:
http://johannes.sipsolutions.net/Projects/snd-aoa
Oh well. I hope you all find a solution, I'm sure you're even more