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Fritz Hudnut (este-el-paz) wrote : Re: [Bug 1296373] Re: [PATCH] Fix sound on PowerPC

That's great . . . haven't had time to fiddle with getting sound going on
the iBook 14.04 yet . . . . No "alsamixer" opens in terminal . . . . How
long do you figure it will take to filter down to update/upgrade? Or, I'll
still have to "modprobe" something? : - 0

On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 1:27 PM, Adam Smith <email address hidden>
wrote:

> I see that the debian bug linked in the opening description is marked as
> fixed, so that should filter down to future versions of Ubuntu. That
> will just leave the i2s machines that won't work out of the box.
>
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> Title:
> [PATCH] Fix sound on PowerPC
>
> Status in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
> Status in “hw-detect” package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> This patch is one of several needed to fix sound on PowerPC. The
> wrong modules are loaded/blacklisted on many machines, causing sound
> not to work or worse the fatal "Fixing recursive fault rebooted is
> needed!" bug -
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1066435
>
> The attached patch incorporates the suggestions in this debian bug
> report https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=650588 , and
> additionally splits off the 'i2s-a' machines which nolonger use
> snd_powermac (at least that is what I understand from this linuxppc-
> dev message -
> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.ppc.embedded/51204 ).
>
> It would be excellent if this could make it into Trusty. I'm going to
> submit another bug on the casper package.
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