Bug#817133: closed by Milan Kupcevic <mi...@debian.org> (Bug#819549: fixed in yaboot 1.3.17-2)

[Risto Suominen]

I can confirm that it works now in daily build 20160405-3 on both platforms.

Risto

Bug#790690: Powermac G5 7,2 Nvidia GeForce 6800 GT graphics issues

[Risto Suominen]

The corresponding source package number is 3.16.7-ckt20-1+deb8u4.

Risto

Bug#790690: Powermac G5 7,2 Nvidia GeForce 6800 GT graphics issues

[Risto Suominen]

I meant to say that the bug is in version 3.16.0-4 (64k page) and not
in 4.4.0-rc7 (4k page).

Risto

Bug#790690: Powermac G5 7,2 Nvidia GeForce 6800 GT graphics issues

[Risto Suominen]

2016-03-30 12:25 UTC+03.00, Mathieu Malaterre :
>
> Which kernel version are you using ?
>
Originally 3.16.0-4-powerpc64 (Jessie)
Now 4.4.0-rc7-powerpc64 (Peter)

Risto

Bug#817133: closed by Barry Warsaw <ba...@debian.org> ()

[Risto Suominen]

I am sorry, but I do not understand. For the first, I cannot install
any packages on a cd.

Bug#817133: yaboot: Invalid device

[Risto Suominen]

Package: yaboot
Version: 1.3.17-1

Looks like yaboot does not find its conf file any more.

I'm trying to install (CD) Debian on a PowerMac G5 (7,3). Jessie
(yaboot 1.3.16) works.

Stretch (yaboot 1.3.17) does not. It complains:

cd:-1,\install\yaboot.conf: Unable to open file, Invalid device

Or, on a Mac mini G4:

cd:-1,\install\mac32.conf: Unable to open file, Invalid device

The CD images were downloaded on March 6th 2016.

Bug#742555: firmware-b43-installer: BCM4306 Wireles controller fails to start after upgrade memory to 2GB

[Risto Suominen]

This seems to be kernel related: it used to work with 2.6 kernel.

Risto


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Bug#695945: quik-installer returns error during debian-installer

[Risto Suominen]

Hi,

 Ed Swierk eswi...@cs.stanford.edu (14/12/2012):
 Dec 14 02:17:16 main-menu[190]: (process:1505): ofpath: Driver pata_macio
 is not supported

If this is the reason for the failure, then it's probably harmless. My
memory tells me that oldworld booting didn't need any OF path
parameters to be set. Thus, there would be no need to run ofpath.

Risto


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Bug#650588: debian-installer-6.0-netboot-powerpc: sound not working out of the box on iMac G5 20 inch

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I think I'm beginning to understand what's happened.

The installer creates a file, /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.local.conf,
that blacklists many of the snd-aoa modules. This was meant to prevent
auto-loading them on older machines where snd-powermac is used. At the
same time it creates /etc/modules, which force-loads snd-powermac.

Somehow the detection of the machine does not work. The problem lies
in the difficulty of knowing which machines need snd-powermac and
which ones need snd-aoa. Adding snd-aoa modules in /etc/modules is not
necessary in any case.

Risto



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Bug#650588: debian-installer-6.0-netboot-powerpc: sound not working out of the box on iMac G5 20 inch

[Risto Suominen]

Tags: patch

snd-powermac draws the limit at the existence of layout-id property in
device-tree. Which leads me to the following patch:

--- hw-detect/discover-mac-io.sh-1.88   2011-08-20 18:11:51.0 +0300
+++ hw-detect/discover-mac-io.sh2011-12-22 14:12:47.0 +0200
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@
for child in $dir/*; do
if [ -f $child/name ]; then
childname=$(cat $child/name
2/dev/null || true)
-   if [ $childname = sound ]; then
+   if [ $childname = sound -a ! -f
$child/layout-id ]; then
# blacklist snd-aoa modules so
snd-powermac is loaded
register-module -b snd-aoa-codec-tas
register-module -b snd-aoa-fabric-layout



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Bug#650588: debian-installer-6.0-netboot-powerpc: sound not working out of the box on iMac G5 20 inch

[Risto Suominen]

I tested on today's daily build (17.12.2011) on an iMac G5 17.

The result is similar, but there is no need for snd_aoa_codec_tas.

The new DE has problems with graphics, but that's another story...

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Bug#636874: gnome-shell: random characters are missing

[Risto Suominen]

Same problem (and same cure) on an iMac G5 17 with nVidia GeForce FX Go5200:

:f0:10.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34M
[GeForce FX Go5200] (rev a1)

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Bug#650588: debian-installer-6.0-netboot-powerpc: sound not working out of the box on iMac G5 20 inch

[Risto Suominen]

2011/12/1, Jeroen Diederen jjhdiede...@zonnet.nl:
 Source: debian-installer-6.0-netboot-powerpc
 Severity: normal
 Tags: d-i

 I downloaded the latest netboot image for powerpc64 (30.11.2011). I installed
 Debian Wheezy successfully and after reboot I was presented with Wheezy 
 without
 sound. To get sound working I added the following kernel modules in
 /etc/modules to make sound work:

 snd_aoa_i2sbus
 snd_aoa_fabric_layout
 snd_aoa_codec_tas
 snd_aoa_codec_onyx

Are you sure you need both codecs? One should be enough, probably onyx.

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Bug#634917: O: mouseemu -- Emulate mouse buttons and mouse wheel

[Risto Suominen]

Please don't. It is the only way I know of to make the buttons work.

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Bug#428756: Affects PowerPC, too

[Risto Suominen]

I'm seeing this on an Apple PowerBook G3 (Bronze keyboard, a.k.a.
Lombard). If I disable hald and udisks-daemon, the machine works fine.

system: squeeze
linux-image-2.6.32-5-powerpc: 2.6.32-31
hal: 0.5.14-3
udisks: 1.0.1+git20100614-3

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Bug#606984: PowerMac G4 (Digital Audio) sound

[Risto Suominen]

2011/4/13, Thomas Carlson tcarl...@sharedcup.com:
 I tried today's (4/13/11) Daily Build #5, that uses the installer build from 
 Sid
 on my 533MHz PowerMac G4 (Digital Audio) and guess what?  The sound worked.
 I was able to adjust the volume and set a sound theme.  The correct device for
 this machine, PowerMac Tumbler (Alsa mixer), had been installed.  I checked
 under /etc/modprobe.d and no files were blacklisted except snd-aoa in
 blacklist.local.conf.

It should be impossible. I don't like this kind of resolution. It
won't last. Nothing has changed. Unless the blacklisting mechanism
has...

But the correct fix (backlist the other snd-aoa modules) is on its way
through the machinery. So, there is hope.

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Bug#616022: powerpc: bmac module is missing

[Risto Suominen]

Solved in today's daily build (linux-kernel-di-powerpc-2.6_1.80).

Thanks to Miguel.

Risto



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Bug#606984: closed by Otavio Salvador ota...@debian.org (Bug#606984: fixed in hw-detect 1.84+squeeze1)

[Risto Suominen]

I have now tested on my PM G3 BW with today's daily build.

The blacklisting works partly: snd-aoa is added to
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.local.conf,

snd-aoa-codec-tas
snd-aoa-fabric-layout
snd-aoa-i2sbus
snd-aoa-soundbus

are not. The result is that snd-aoa is still drawn in, by the others,
and prevents snd-powermac from loading.

snd-powermac is added to /etc/modules.

Needs this bug to be re-opened to get it fixed?

Risto



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Bug#606984: closed by Otavio Salvador ota...@debian.org (Bug#606984: fixed in hw-detect 1.84+squeeze1)

[Risto Suominen]

2011/3/26, Miguel Figueiredo el...@debianpt.org:

 Here it goes another patch to blacklist the modules you pointed.
 If it's OK i can commit it.

Please do, it looks good to me. I'll test it as soon as it reaches the
daily build.

Thanks again, Miguel.

Risto



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Bug#606984: Info received (Bug#606984: closed by Jurij Smakov ju...@debian.org (Bug#606984: fixed in hw-detect 1.85))

[Risto Suominen]

I'm still uncertain about this fix. The blacklisting of snd-aoa is not
functioning as I would expect, i.e. adding lines:

blacklist snd-aoa
blacklist snd-aoa-codec-tas
blacklist snd-aoa-fabric-layout
blacklist snd-aoa-i2sbus
blacklist snd-aoa-soundbus

to a file in /etc/modprobe.d/. And what would be the name of the file?
blacklist.conf?

As far as I know, this does not happen, not even the first module,
snd-aoa, is blacklisted.

I'm still depending on second hand information on this matter, as my
own testing has paused because on another problem:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=616022

In the meantime, I hope that someone could confirm that the mechanism
used, i.e. register-module -b, is working (and works as described
above).

Risto



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Bug#606984: closed by Jurij Smakov ju...@debian.org (Bug#606984: fixed in hw-detect 1.85)

[Risto Suominen]

Looks like the blacklisting part is not fully functional yet. At
least, there is no snd-aoa in /etc/modprobe.d/*. In addition, I
believe that the other snd-aoa-... modules mentioned in the original
bug report should be blacklisted, too.

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Bug#617469: Things that make you go hmmmm....

[Risto Suominen]

It's probably because of the frame buffer problem that's been
discussed in bug #614221.

As a workaround, try: install video=ofonly.

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Bug#614221: iMac-G3 fails to boot with 2.6.37-1-powerpc (Bug#614221)

[Risto Suominen]

2011/3/5, Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk:

 * Could some Mac users test and report whether i915 or nouveau can
 successfully take over the display from offb in 2.6.37 or 2.6.38-rc6?

I tested on my iMac G4 with nVidia graphics. Same problem, the penguin
never appears.

Another odd phenomenon on this machine: if I enter OF and manually
give the boot command on the prompt, the colours are natural, but if I
press Option and select Linux from the graphical boot menu, the
colours are 'inverted': red text on white background.

Risto



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Bug#616022: powerpc: bmac module is missing

[Risto Suominen]

Package: installation-reports
Severity: grave
Tags: d-i
Justification: renders package unusable

-- Package-specific info:

Boot method: CD
Image version: 
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/powerpc/iso-cd/debian-testing-powerpc-netinst.iso
(01-Mar-2011 16:00)
Date: 01-Mar-2011 20:00

Machine: PowerMac G3 BW


Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it

Initial boot:   [O]
Detect network card:[E]
Configure network:  [ ]
Detect CD:  [ ]
Load installer modules: [ ]
Detect hard drives: [ ]
Partition hard drives:  [ ]
Install base system:[ ]
Clock/timezone setup:   [ ]
User/password setup:[ ]
Install tasks:  [ ]
Install boot loader:[ ]
Overall install:[ ]

Comments/Problems:

bmac module is missing.

video=ofonly was needed.



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Bug#606984: closed by Jurij Smakov ju...@debian.org (Bug#606984: fixed in hw-detect 1.85)

[Risto Suominen]

It's only partly fixed.

The blacklisting of snd-aoa should be handled for this particular machine.

The problem is that snd-aoa is loaded automatically before
snd-powermac, preventing the latter from working.

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Bug#525946: hw-detect: snd-powermac not added to /etc/modules

[Risto Suominen]

Ubuntu seems to have solved this with this (reverse) patch to
discover-mac-io.sh:

--- hw-detect_1.84/discover-mac-io.sh   2009-07-23 19:53:43.0 +0300
+++ hw-detect_1.80ubuntu1/discover-mac-io.sh2008-11-22
00:11:55.0 +0200
@@ -53,10 +53,7 @@
if [ -f $child/name ]; then
childname=$(cat $child/name
2/dev/null || true)
if [ $childname = sound ]; then
-   # Loading snd-powermac locks
up G5 systems
-   if  [ $name != i2s-a ]; then
-   register-module snd-powermac
-   fi
+   register-module snd-powermac
fi
fi
done

with the following comment in changelog:

- Reinstate snd-powermac for i2s-a devices since apparently the lock-up
  has been fixed.

Apparently the conclusion is correct: they've had this change in
production since Thu, 27 Nov 2008 17:46:21 +. Over 2 years.

Maybe Debian could follow?

Of course, someone with a G5 should test it.

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Bug#606984: PowerMac G4 (Digital Audio) sound

[Risto Suominen]

Package: debian-installer

Wrong sound module, snd-aoa, is loaded on PowerMac3,4.

Currently the most usable sound driver for this machine is
snd-powermac. To make it load on boot, the following modules ought to
be blacklisted:

snd-aoa
snd-aoa-codec-tas
snd-aoa-fabric-layout
snd-aoa-i2sbus
snd-aoa-soundbus

and:

snd-powermac

should be added to /etc/modules.

This could be a temporary solution, until snd-aoa will support the machine.



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Bug#605900: PowerMac G3 (BW)

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Package: installation-reports

Boot method: CD
Image version: 
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/powerpc/iso-cd/debian-testing-powerpc-xfce+lxde-CD-1.iso
29-Nov-2010 11:07  648M
Date: 3-Dec-2010 21:00

Machine: PowerMac G3 (BW)
Processor: PowerPC G3
Memory: 512M
Partitions: /dev/sdc
#type name length   base
  ( size )  system
/dev/sdc1 Apple_partition_map Apple63 @ 1
  ( 31.5k)  Partition map
/dev/sdc2  Apple_Driver43 Macintosh56 @ 64
  ( 28.0k)  Driver 4.3
/dev/sdc3  Apple_Driver43 Macintosh56 @ 120
  ( 28.0k)  Driver 4.3
/dev/sdc4Apple_Driver_ATA Macintosh56 @ 176
  ( 28.0k)  Unknown
/dev/sdc5Apple_Driver_ATA Macintosh56 @ 232
  ( 28.0k)  Unknown
/dev/sdc6  Apple_FWDriver Macintosh   512 @ 288
  (256.0k)  Unknown
/dev/sdc7  Apple_Driver_IOKit Macintosh   512 @ 800
  (256.0k)  Unknown
/dev/sdc8   Apple_Patches Patch Partition 512 @ 1312
  (256.0k)  Unknown
/dev/sdc9 Apple_Bootstrap boot   1600 @ 1824
  (800.0k)  NewWorld bootblock
/dev/sdc10Apple_UNIX_SVR2 root   17519256 @ 263968
  (  8.4G)  Linux native
/dev/sdc11Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap 260544 @ 3424
  (127.2M)  Linux swap
/dev/sdc12 Apple_Free Extra16 @
17783224 (  8.0k)  Free space

Block size=512, Number of Blocks=17783240
DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0
Drivers-
1: @ 64 for 23, type=0x1
2: @ 120 for 36, type=0x
3: @ 176 for 21, type=0x701
4: @ 232 for 34, type=0xf8ff

Output of lspci -knn:
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Motorola MPC106 [Grackle] [1057:0002] (rev 40)
00:0d.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21154
[1011:0026] (rev 02)
00:10.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc Rage
128 RE/SG [1002:5245]
Subsystem: Device [b530:0408]
Kernel driver in use: aty128fb
01:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394) [0c00]: Texas Instruments
PCILynx/PCILynx2 IEEE 1394 Link Layer Controller [104c:8000] (rev 02)
Subsystem: Apple Computer Inc. Device [106b:001c]
01:01.0 IDE interface [0101]: Silicon Image, Inc. PCI0646 [1095:0646] (rev 07)
Subsystem: Silicon Image, Inc. PCI0646 [1095:0646]
Kernel driver in use: pata_cmd64x
01:03.0 SCSI storage controller [0100]: Adaptec AIC-7850 [9004:5078] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Adaptec AHA-2904/Integrated AIC-7850 [9004:7850]
Kernel driver in use: aic7xxx
01:05.0 Unassigned class [ff00]: Apple Computer Inc. Paddington Mac
I/O [106b:0017]
Kernel driver in use: macio
01:06.0 USB Controller [0c03]: OPTi Inc. 82C861 [1045:c861] (rev 10)
Subsystem: OPTi Inc. 82C861 [1045:c861]
Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd

Base System Installation Checklist:
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it

Initial boot:   [O]
Detect network card:[O]
Configure network:  [O] (DHCP)
Detect CD:  [O]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives:  [O] (manual)
Install base system:[O]
Clock/timezone setup:   [O]
User/password setup:[O]
Install tasks:  [O]
Install boot loader:[E]
Overall install:[E]

Comments/Problems:

boot loader: mkofboot couldn't find /proc/scsi (existing Bug #572869).

After manually editing /etc/yaboot.conf, I was facing another problem
on boot: the disk drives seem to be detected in undefined order, and
this makes it difficult to guess correct /dev/sd letter (and yaboot
doesn't accept LABEL= syntax). I have two IDE disks (pata_cmd64x) and
one SCSI disk (the one used here) (aic7xxx).

Third problem was with X. It was running wild and filling the disk
with its log file. The salvation came with package
firmware-linux-nonfree containing the file r128_cce.bin. Still, I'm
unable to log out and in again, as this makes X hang.



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Bug#603419: ALSA fix for PowerMac G4 DA

[Risto Suominen]

Package: linux-image-2.6.32-5-powerpc
Version: 2.6.32-27
Tags: patch, fixed-upstream

These patches can be applied in this order on sound directory with -p2.

http://ristosu.wippiespace.com/pub/alsa-tumbler-1.0.22.1-p15.diff
http://ristosu.wippiespace.com/pub/alsa-tumbler-1.0.22.1-p16.diff
http://ristosu.wippiespace.com/pub/alsa-tumbler-1.0.22.1-p16d.diff



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Bug#452376: xserver-xorg-video-intel: Text missing after suspend to RAM

[Risto Suominen]

Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel
Version: 2:2.3.2-2+lenny6
Followup-For: Bug #452376

Also using Dell Latitude C400. Text and icons are invisible after StR.
And small corruption here and there all the time, also before StR.

My temporary (hopefully) solution was to copy over an older version from
Ubuntu 8.04.1, and use Driver i810 instead on intel. The current
version seems to link those two together, but they used to come in
separate packages.

-- Package-specific info:
Contents of /var/lib/x11/X.roster:
xserver-xorg

/var/lib/x11/X.md5sum does not exist.

X server symlink status:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 25.5. 17:27 /etc/X11/X - /usr/bin/Xorg
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1718516 15.3. 17:30 /usr/bin/Xorg

Contents of /var/lib/x11/xorg.conf.roster:
xserver-xorg

VGA-compatible devices on PCI bus:
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82830 CGC
[Chipset Graphics Controller] (rev 03)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.1
 APT prefers stable
 APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages xserver-xorg-video-intel depends on:
ii  libc6  2.7-18GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdrm22.3.1-2   Userspace interface to kernel DRM
ii  xserver-xorg-core  2:1.4.2-10.lenny1 Xorg X server - core server

xserver-xorg-video-intel recommends no packages.

xserver-xorg-video-intel suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information



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Bug#512273: xorg: Macintosh BlueWhite G3 w/ ATI 3D Rage Pro - monitor complains out of range

[Risto Suominen]

2009/1/19 Rick Thomas rbthoma...@pobox.com:

 When X starts up the monitor displays a message out of range indicating
 that the
 computer is feeding it stuff it can't handle.  (This message is coming from
 the
 monitor, itself -- not the X software).  The image on the monitor shimmers
 and
 jumps and looks like snow in a high wind.

This sounds worse than my problem, but it may depend on the same
source, i.e. something probably programmed in by Open Firmware into
the chip's registers.

Looking at file atidsp.c, function ATIDSPPreInit, near its beginning,
you can see:

/* Retrieve XCLK settings */
IOValue = ATIMach64GetPLLReg(PLL_XCLK_CNTL);
pATI-XCLKPostDivider = GetBits(IOValue, PLL_XCLK_SRC_SEL);
pATI-XCLKReferenceDivider = 1;

What I did, I changed the line setting pATI-XCLKPostDivider to:

pATI-XCLKPostDivider = 1;

and the problem with my display image disappeared.

Now, I can't say that 1 will be the correct value in your case, or
even promise that it won't make things worse. And I must add that I
made my change in similar code in Linux kernel's
drivers/video/aty/mach64_ct.c on an Oldworld Mac.

The result from this change will be that some values calculated by the
code and later written into the chip's registers become different.

I found some useful tools for peeking and poking the chip, f.ex.
atydump, I will put a copy available here:
http://ristosu.wippiespace.com/pub/atyfb-bin.tgz

Risto



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Bug#367773: snd-powermac patch

[Risto Suominen]

2008/3/30, Elimar Riesebieter [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
 Maybe this could be a fix for...
  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=367773

I'm afraid not. I haven't touched Tumbler - yet. But I'll see what I
can do. Could you give me the output from:

$ cat /proc/device-tree/model; echo
$ cat /proc/device-tree/compatible; echo

Risto



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Bug#446968: snd-powermac patch

[Risto Suominen]

2008/3/30, Elimar Riesebieter [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
 Maybe this could be a fix for...
  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=446968

I don't know. I think that the problem depends on the new snd-aoa
series modules. They are not needed with snd-powermac that can handle
the i2s bus by itself. Other modules touching the same bus sounds like
a bad idea. I may be wrong, though. A simple test could be to just
move the new modules out of the way.

Risto



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Bug#388307: quik splits OF command line

[Risto Suominen]

Package: quik
Version: 2.1-8 (and probably many older ones)

OF commands longer than one word cannot be issued. The following patch
fixes this:

*** quik-2.1/second/main.c.org  2005-12-29 22:41:16.0 +0200
--- quik-2.1/second/main.c  2005-12-29 21:28:39.0 +0200
***
*** 126,131 
--- 126,134 
   return;
 }
 *linep = p;
+ /* Don't split OF command line. */
+ if (*p == '$')
+   return;
 while (*p != 0  *p != ' ')
   ++p;
 while (*p == ' ')


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