YDL4--iBookG4, happy

[P-O Blomstrand]

Jim!

Even happier! Sound works great now. xmms is playing Radio Paradise
while I type. Inspired by your success I downloaded and built
xmms-1.2.10 from source rpm. After installation all was well, except for
playing music CD's. To be able to do that I also had to download and
build the xmms-cdread plugin. Found a source rpm for Fedora
(xmms-cdread-0.14-0.fdr.4.a.1.src.rpm) which worked fine. The only thing
I miss now is the ability to play mp3 in Rhytmbox. Trying to build
gstreamer-plugins-mp3 turned out to be way above my level so hopefully
we can count on Matthias Saou for that.

Thanks! Happy playing!

/PO

> PO,
> 
> Sound works fine on my iBook. I had the same problem with xmms quiting
> with a segmentation fault. I used xine until I d/led and recompiled
> xmms
> 1.2.10. Now xmms works fine. Other than that things seem to work fine.
> Is the sound problem just that you can't get XMMS to start? Or do you
> get no sound at all, except for the Soundcard Detection GUI?
> --Jim
> 
> On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 00:40, P-O Blomstrand wrote:
> > Agree! YDL4 works great. I have had it installed now for a couple of
> > weeks in my TiBook 15" 1,25GHz. Installation went smooth and most
> > everything worked out of the box - except for sound, which is quite
> > annoying.
> > The Sound Detection GUI is playing the test sound loud and clear but
> > trying xmms ends with a "segmentation fault". Is this a work in
> progress
> > on Terrasoft's side or am I just ignorant. Anyone who knows anything
> > about this?
> > 
> > Have you been able to get any sound from your iBook Jim?
> > 
> > /PO
> > 
> > On Thu, 04 Nov 2004 16:25:50 -0700, Jim Pelton <j.pelton at utah.edu>
> > wrote:
> > > Hello List! It's been a while, but I just installed YDL4 (yes, why
> not
> > > fork out the 90 bucks and support the cause) a few days ago on my
> 12"
> > > iBook G4 and life has been good ever since. I'm adjusting to using
> my
> > > USB dongle again for wireless, and not having sleep functionality,
> but
> > > being able to tinker with Linux on a new machine (aside from my
> x86
> > box)
> > > has been great. MOL is awesome, even with my 384MB RAM. No sleep
> > doesn't
> > > bother me much, I usually don't need to power up/power down my
> machine
> > > very often anyway.
> > > 
> > > Anyway just wanted to say how happy I am with this release. I am
> just
> > as
> > > happy with it as I am with FC2 on my x86 machine. Has anyone else
> had
> > > similar results?
> > > 
> > > Also, does anyone know if the Airport Extreme slot is a special
> slot
> > not
> > > widely used by card manufacturers? It doesn't look like anything
> I've
> > > seen available on cards at Comp USA or anywhere else and I haven't
> > been
> > > able to find any good info on the web.  Just curious, but you
> probably
> > > know what I'm thinking!
> > > 
> > > --Jimbo