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* [http://www.pseudoberries.com/powerbook/ PowerBook on Ubuntu]
* [http://www.pseudoberries.com/powerbook/ PowerBook on Ubuntu]
* [http://johannes.sipsolutions.net/Projects/snd-aoa snd-aoa]
* [http://johannes.sipsolutions.net/Projects/snd-aoa snd-aoa]
* [https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-driver/+bug/64247 snd-powermac hint]

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Revision as of 19:13, 14 May 2012

I'm running Debian squeeze on a 12" PowerBook G4 and these are some of my notes about the configuration. This is may not work for your hardware so take with a grain of salt.

Hardware

CPU Info

cat /proc/cpuinfo 
processor       : 0
cpu             : 7447A, altivec supported
clock           : 1333.333000MHz
revision        : 1.1 (pvr 8003 0101)
bogomips        : 73.72
timebase        : 18432000
platform        : PowerMac
model           : PowerBook6,4
machine         : PowerBook6,4
motherboard     : PowerBook6,4 MacRISC3 Power Macintosh 
detected as     : 287 (PowerBook G4 12")
pmac flags      : 0000001a
L2 cache        : 512K unified
pmac-generation : NewWorld
Memory          : 768 MB

Ethernet

lspci | grep Ethernet
0002:20:0f.0 Ethernet controller: Apple Inc. UniNorth 2 GMAC (Sun GEM) (rev 80)

WLAN

lspci | grep Wireless
0001:10:12.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03)

Framebuffer

lspci | grep VGA
0000:00:10.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation NV34M [GeForce FX Go5200] (rev a1)

Sound

For some reason or another after installation the snd-aoa driver is the standard driver on the machine. But there is not a single sound escaping the speakers with that driver. As written on the page of the snd-aoa driver the machine in quesiton PowerMac6,4 is not on the list of the supported Macs anyways.

I had to do a bit of fiddling by blacklisting the snd-aoa drivers and manually loading the snd-powermac one.

Firstly we add the snd-powermac to /etc/modules. Each module defined in the /etc/module file will be loaded at boot time.

echo snd-powermac >> /etc/modules

And confirming

grep snd-powermac /etc/modules
snd-powermac

Next is to blacklist the snd-aoa modules in /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base-blacklist.conf

grep --color snd-aoa /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base-blacklist.conf 
blacklist snd-aoa-i2sbus
blacklist snd-aoa-soundbus
blacklist snd-aoa-codec-toonie
blacklist snd-aoa-codec-tas
blacklist snd-aoa-codec-onyx
blacklist snd-aoa-fabric-layout
blacklist snd-aoa

References